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[O'Brien, Fitz-James]. "Seeing the World." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Sep. 1857: 542-546.
Type: magazine ; Genre: short fiction
Abstract
The poet Cipriano receives the ability to see, know, and comprehend everything. This gift provides him with amazing improvisational skills, but eventually leads him to madness.
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- Cornwell, Neil. "Piracy and Higher Realism: The Strange Case of Fitz-James O'Brien and Vladimir Odoevsky." Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics: Collected Essays. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1998. 157-167. [more about this work]
- Comparing the text of O'Brien's "Seeing the World" to that of a translation of Odoevsky's "The Improvisor," Cornwell shows that they are nearly identical.
- Cornwell, Neil. "Gothic and its Origins East and West: Vladimir Odoevsky and Fitz-James O'Brien." Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition. Eds. Valeria Tinker-Villani and Peter Davidson, with Jane Stevenson. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1995. 117-128. [more about this work]
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