Lesson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose I. Text Analysis I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of a figure of paradox things: there was nothing I said or did that did and contradictio not make people wonder. I treated Art as the n supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram W B TL E To be continued on the next page.Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E I. Text Analysis To be continued on the next page. “I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.” a figure of paradox and contradictio n