Show GENIUS IS NOT INHERITED moat blost poets who have had sons did not transmit divine to them au all examination of tile the question of it lie I 1 e transmission of genius from father L lo 10 son would seem to indicate that tile the sons of great poets are generally dull dogs the hobt eminent english poets had no sons or lost them early 4 find and tue hishme hesh aine me observation is true of Arne american rican poets alsa poetic fever may inay be a name fame that suros 11 out in its own gette generation ration orten aba t tha poet seems to put so much into his at as to sacrifice his paternity and ofton alas the professional po poet et is tco tc o to marry at all however that hist may be many english il plots arts aro are quit os of tile charge of beget ai dull eions dogs of nf sons for they never had any sons cosley co v ley butler otway prior cengic coni eve e gay phillips savage thomson collins co llis ll is shenstone Aken Allen side goldsmith gray and johnson Johns all died without leaving offspring and mar love e pope keats swift watts and cowper never married there thera are cases on the other side do Cole ridges son hartley bartley was a poet of respectable ability all the tenny sons wrote poetry sq so did all the roff ris att her a abid nd chi child childre children ren addi sons lather father was a writer t of some importance although descendants did not pass into the second generation era tion the same is true of Dr descendants Mil tons family and shakespeare s became extinct in the second nud third generation sr sir walter scotts baronetcy expired with willi his bis son |