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The Genius of George StubbsHe had much more than horse sense.

By Christopher Benfey
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007, at 7:25 AM ET

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Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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