Some argue that Laura was an "untutored genius," relying on her daughter mainly for some early encouragement and her connections with publishers and literary agents.

What the doubts about Shakespeare's authorship tell us, first of all, is that people find it impossible to believe in untutored genius.

In the early years of the 21st century, Cen Kalakaua, a pure-blooded Hawaiian who is an untutored mathematical genius, comes close to explicating the nature of time.

A more-than-lively novel of the New York art world, in which an untutored genius from Harvard persuades an ever so grand collector and heiress that art should be beautiful.

The improvvisatori naturally appealed to Romantic writers captivated by concepts like William Wordsworth's "spontaneous overflow of emotion" and the broad Romantic concept of untutored genius.

The idea that Shakespeare was an untutored genius was common at this time.

But most computerized music demands that we redefine technique to involve less muscle and more concept, opening the door to the stray untutored genius.

Shanna soon realized, however, that this idea was new to the zand-that, in fact, it had learned the information that very planetary day from an untutored genius it referred to as Old One.

He is," said Von Braun, "an untutored genius.

They consider him a kind of idiot-savant from George Bush country - he was raised in Waco, Tex., which is just down the road from the president's ranch - who became this untutored theatrical genius.