Genius, a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds, Harold Bloom
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Genius, a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds, Harold Bloom
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eng
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non fiction
Main title
Genius
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49031283
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Harold Bloom
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a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds
Summary
From the Bible to Ralph Ellison, America's most prominent and bestselling literary critic takes an enlightening look at the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time
Table Of Contents
On this book's arrangement: genius and Kabbalah -- The Lustres -- Gnosticism: the religion of literature -- What is genius? -- Genius: a personal definition -- I. Keter. Lustre 1 : William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Michel de Montaigne, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy -- Lustre 2 : Lucretius, Vergil, Saint Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer -- II. Hokmah. Lustre 3 : The Yahwist, Socrates and Plato, Saint Paul, Muhammad -- Lustre 4 : Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann -- III. Binah. Lustre 5 : Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett -- Lustre 6 : Molière, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde, Luigi Pirandello -- IV. Hesed. Lustre 7 : John Donne, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Lady Murasaki -- Lustre 8 : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jane Brontë, Virginia Woolf -- V. Din. Lustre 9 : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot -- Lustre 10 : William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Giacomo Leopardi, Alfred, Lord TennysonVI. Tiferet. Lustre 11 : Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- Lustre 12 : Victor Hugo, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire. Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valéry. VII. Nezah. Lustre 13 : Homer, Luis Vaz de Camòes, James Joyce, Alejo Carpentier, Octavio Paz -- Lustre 14 : Stendhal, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor -- VIII. Hod. Lustre 15 : Walt Whitman, Fernando Pessoa, Hart Crane, Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda -- Lustre 16 : George Eliot, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Iris Murdoch -- IX. Yesod. Lustre 17 : Gustave Flaubert, José Maria Eça de Queiroz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino -- Lustre 18 : William Blake, D.H. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke, Eugenio Montale -- X. Malkhut. Lustre 19 : Honoré de Balzac, Lewis Carroll, Henry James, Robert Browning, William Butler Yeats -- Lustre 20 : Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, Paul Celan, Ralph Ellison
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