That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.
Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
James Miller has already been declared one of 'London's rising stars', and the central vision of his first novel, 'The Lost Boys,' is wonderfully striking.
Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch.
