Sentences with phrase «precocious literary genius»

Verlaine was twenty - seven, with a wife and a substantial poetic reputation, when the sixteen - year - old Arthur Rimbaud, the most precocious literary genius ever, wrote to him from the provinces and sent him some poems.

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Then there's the allusion to J.D. Salinger's novella, an account of the precocious genius of the Glass family, by now something of an American literary legend.