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He becomes part of the tradition, a standard, a stick with which to beat the next original genius who dares to shove an unsponsored nose above water. In the nineteenth century cultured people were amazed to find that such cads as Keats and Burns were also great poets. They had to be accepted, and their caddishness had to be explained away.
They stood for the thought of the world outside the idea fatherless, unsponsored, the aspiration of the great masses a breath of fresh air in the sick-room of a chronic invalid forever dying, forever unburiable. Their judgment always differed from that of the country's representatives.
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