Some Reflections on Genius: And Other EssaysObservations on creative inspiration and eccentricities of Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Jacob Epstein, and others, presented by a British neurologist. |
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... disease of the brain or of a purely psychological disorder . John- son's contemporaries were divided as to the nature of his malady . Boswell , like Thomas Tyers , thought that it was a physical disease . An allusion by Pope to ...
... disease of the brain or of a purely psychological disorder . John- son's contemporaries were divided as to the nature of his malady . Boswell , like Thomas Tyers , thought that it was a physical disease . An allusion by Pope to ...
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... disease and poverty which Dickens was then describing which had called into being the Royal Kent Dispensary , from which your Society sprang . Perhaps it is not surprising that disease should play a consider- able part in the novels of ...
... disease and poverty which Dickens was then describing which had called into being the Royal Kent Dispensary , from which your Society sprang . Perhaps it is not surprising that disease should play a consider- able part in the novels of ...
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... disease . In either case , what happens is that the physical changes produced by the injury or the disease excite certain nerve fibres . These set going nerve impulses which are carried through the nerves to the spinal cord and then ...
... disease . In either case , what happens is that the physical changes produced by the injury or the disease excite certain nerve fibres . These set going nerve impulses which are carried through the nerves to the spinal cord and then ...
Contents
Some Reflections on Genius | 9 |
lEnfant Terrible | 23 |
Dr Johnson on Science | 34 |
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