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A large experience of poets has convinced me as little of this as of the old view summed up in genus irritabile vatum. Poets seem to me the homeliest and most hardworking of mankind 't is a man in possession, not a daimon nor a disease. Of course they have their mad moods, but they don't write in them.
I likewise either found or formed an image to myself of the contrary kind that those who lost the prizes were such as had disobliged the poet, or were in disgrace with Augustus, or enemies to Maecenas; and this was the poetical revenge he took, for genus irritabile vatum, as Horace says.
The annals of the genus irritabile scarcely show a parallel to such a career. The most prominent American contemporary of Mr. Irving in imaginative literature, I suppose, was Fenimore Cooper, whose genius raised the American name in Europe more effectively even than Irving's, at least on the Continent.
It was only an animus irritandi , which, happening to be exercised upon a genus irritabile, produced unexpected violence of resentment. Their irritability arose only from an opinion of their own importance, and their delight in their new exaltation. What might have been borne by a Procurator could not be borne by a Solicitor. Your Lordships well know, that honores mutant mores.
Now the genus irritabile vatum, even when their thoughts, as Carlyle put it, "enrich the blood of the world," have very generally appeared to the plain man of goodwill as very defective in the art of living.
He's not a bad fellow though he does belong to the genus irritabile. I will go about it this very day." "You'll not find him, I'm sorry to say. There's a note I had from him yesterday. And the picture's quite unfit to be seen utterly ruined. But I can't think how you could miss it!" "To tell you the truth, Florimel, I had a bit of a scrimmage after you left me in the studio."
Cause why? a pictur' framer is a gentleman, and a pictur' painter is a hog." There was a good deal of truth in what Mr. Tennant said, mixed up with a good deal of uncharitableness. But what did he know of the genus irritabile vatum?
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