The phrase "peculiar genius" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who possesses a unique or unconventional talent or intelligence.
Example: "Her peculiar genius for solving complex problems often left her colleagues in awe."
Alternatives: "unusual brilliance" or "distinctive talent."
Up to now, it has been his peculiar genius.
Cosmopolitan Vienna incubated his peculiar genius as well as his hideous ideas.
Benjamin Bagby's peculiar genius has less to do with virtuosity than with daring and imagination.
But he was after all a peculiar genius with no modern equivalent, except possibly Kafka.
Mercury Rev's peculiar genius favours a cyclical understanding of musical history over a linear one.
Many contemporary artists must have been aware of Towne's peculiar genius.
But Chapman's scholarly appreciation of Barrett's peculiar musical genius lends authority to this sympathetic account of the reluctant star's decline into befuddled inertia – and throws valuable light on one of the more disturbing stories in rock lore.
Warhol's peculiar, vapid genius, along with his obsessions with fame, money, and youth, presaged Facebook, American Idol, the Kardashians, and the thousands of online and print organs dedicated to trumpeting every blasphemous burble and trivial pursuit of celebrities ranging from Brangelina to Honey Boo Boo.
The songs, by Schumann, Schubert, Grieg ("In the Hall of the Mountain King"), and Sibelius, among others, all have the peculiar sparkle of genius that can make fairy-tale creatures come to life.
But Jack Chick also had a really peculiar form of genius, which shouldn't ever be understated.
In their own ways, Epstein and Martin afforded the Beatles with the signal ingredient in their future success when they were able to glimpse the band mates' peculiar form of genius that had, for the most part, gone unrecognized.
