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Hereditary Genius
public when a child, and wrote at 15. Tom Moore published under the
name of Thomas Little, and was famous at 23. Ovid wrote verses
from boyhood. Pope published his “Pastorals” aet. 16, and translated
the “Iliad” between 25 and 30. Shakespeare must have begun very
early, for he had written almost all his historical plays by the time he
was 34. Schiller, a boy of promise, became famous through his
“Brigands” at 23. Sophocles, at the age of 27, beat Aeschylus in the
public games.
I now annex the usual tables.
TABLE I.
SUMMARY OF RELATIONSHIPS OF 24 POETS GROUPED
INTO 20 FAMILIES.
One relation (or two in family).
Byron
s.
Milman
F.
Chaucer
S.
Racine
S.
2.
Chenier
B.
2. Tasso
F.
Goethe
f.
Vega
S.
Heine
U.
Two or three relations (or three or four in family),
Aeschylus
2B.
Dibdin
S. N.
2.
Ariosto
B. N.
Dryden
S. UP.
Aristophanes
3 S.
Hook
F. B. N.
2.
Corneille
B. n.
Milton
F. B.
Cowper
G. GB.
Four or more relations (or five or more in family).
Coleridge
S. s. 3 N. P. 2 NS.
Wordsworth
B. 3N.
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