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The difference between the two is seen in nothing more clearly than in the fact that so many educated persons can and do write fairly good verse, in fact, write most of the popular newspaper and magazine poetry, while only those who have a genius for poetry write real poems. Could mere talent have written Bryant's lines "To a Waterfowl"? or his "Thanatopsis"? or "June"? Or the small volume of selections of great poetry which Arnold made from the massive works of Wordsworth?
Talent could have produced a vast deal of Wordsworth's work -- all the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets" and much of "The Excursion. " Could talent have written Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"? It could have produced all that Whitman wrote before that time -- all his stories and poems. Give talent inspiration and it becomes genius. The grub is metamorphosed into the butterfly.