The trope of the tortured poet whose gifts would destroy him came about later, when European writers began to see poets as especially sensitive, anguished, or fragile.
By the 20th century, the stereotype of the tortured poet could fit all manner of wild and self-destructive creators, especially men, from Dylan Thomas to the Doors' Jim Morrison.
Taylor Swift references and plays with the tradition of tortured poets in her album The Tortured Poets Department, commenting on and rejecting the stereotype.
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