...are of a different kind. 15 This second Class of great Genius's are those that have formed themselves by Rules, and submitted the Greatness of their natural...Talents to the Corrections and Restraints of Art. 16 Such among the Greeks wen Plato and Aristotle, among the Romans Virgil and Tully, among the English...

...of writers that includes Vergil and Milton as examples, describing them as having "formed themselves by Rules, and submitted the Greatness of their natural...Talents to the Corrections and Restraints of Art" (no. 160). Though in the second class, Vergil and Milton are not inferior to Homer and Solomon. Addison...

...Rules." Yet Addison, risking a relativity of values, refrained from ranking one class above the other: "The Genius in both these Classes of Authors may be...great, but shews itself after a different Manner." In proposing an interpretation of how geniuses might differ though still achieve equal greatness, Addison...

...a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves by the rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art."4 On Addison's view, then, the Longinian, natural genius is complemented by a "learned" genius...

...Although Addison seeks to avoid favoring one kind of poetic genius over the other, noting explicitly that "the Genius in both these Classes of Authors may be equally great," his rhapsodizing on the natural variety early on ("There appears something nobly wild and extravagant...

...p. 290. tomisero la grandezza dei loro talenti naturali alle correzioni e alle limitazioni dell'arte [«and submitted the Greatness of their natural Talents to the Corrections and Restraints of Art»]»59. Tra i Greci, risposero a questi requisiti Piatone e Aristotele; tra i Romani, Virgilio...

...Addison hesitates to subordinate this second class of genius, or 'those that have formed themselves by Rules, and submitted the Greatness of their natural...Talents to the Corrections and Restraints of Art', to the first. It is only when he comes to the question of imitation that his true allegiance emerges,...

...geniuses who 'were never disciplined and broken by Rules of Art' and those 'that have formed themselves by Rules, and submitted the Greatness of their natural Talents to the Corrections and Restraints of Art';10 and it was the former rather than the latter type which fascinated eighteenth-century readers...