Recording in her diary her last interview with Samuel Johnson, Fanny Burney relates that the Doctor spoke "with as much fire, spirit, wit, and truth of criticis and judgement, as ever yet I have heard him," and that he declared, "'Genius is nothing more than knowing the use of tools, but there must be tools for it to use.'" Throughout his literary career, Johnson had frequently pondered over the components of genius, but never before had he given it so succinct a definition. Three immediate questions come to mind. What are the tools of genius? On what materials should they be used? To what ultimate purpose should the genius work? [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.117565 |
| Date | January 1965 |
| Creators | Cherniavsky, Felix. |
| Contributors | Hemlow, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of English.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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