Poetic genius and its classical origins / Penelope Murray -- The "super-artist" as genius : the sixteenth-century view / Martin Kemp -- The second Homeric Renaissance : allegoresis and genius in early modern poetics / Glenn Most -- Shakespeare and original genius / Jonathan Bate -- Goethe on genius / Michael Beddow -- The emptiness of genius : aspects of Romanticism / Drummond Bone -- Nietzsche on genius / Michael Tanner -- Deconstructing genius : Paul de Man and the critique of Romantic ideology / Christopher Norris -- What is musical genius? / Wilfrid Mellers -- Genius in mathematics / Clive Kilmister -- Genius and mental disorder : a history of ideas concerning their conjuction / Neil Kessel -- Genius and psychoanalysis : Freud, Jung and the concept of personality / Anthony Storr