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good writing is talent; true literature is genius

ruminations on Harold Bloom's Genius

The question we need to put to any writer must be: does she or he augment our consciousness, and how is it done? I find this a rough but effectual test: however I have been entertained, has my awareness been intensified, my consciousness widened and clarified? If not, then I have encountered talent, not genius. What is best and oldest in myself has not been activated.

I would propose that the writer apply the "best and oldest in myself".

 

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