Precociously talented as a poet, his work received greatest recognition in the 1930s when T. S. Eliot was his editor and Faber his publisher.

Ms. Kelly is a phenomenon - not a precociously talented child, but a complete improvising musician.

She is also a precociously talented con artist, adept at using a sweet, innocent façade to mask her true self from adults so they will give in to her.

But he was also precociously talented, and in the fifth grade began taking art classes at the Carnegie Museum.

My husband thought her writing precociously talented but wanted to fire her nonetheless.

The three brothers in the band grew up traveling through the South with their father, an itinerant preacher, so there's snake-and-apple stuff, too, a desire to see them as precociously talented under-age sinners.

Young and precociously talented - her first book, "Flying Leap" (1998), was published when she was only 24 - Budnitz writes stories that are wildly imaginative, frequently thought-provoking and occasionally maddening.

He was a precociously talented youngster, naturally gifted at the piano, and even then composing musicals to be performed in his toy theatre.

It is, in short, just the kind of character made for the precociously talented Anna Paquin, 19.

Born in Edinburgh, Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager.