Genius : a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds / Harold Bloom.

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Bloom, Harold [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Warner Books, c2002.
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xviii, 814 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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      Princeton copy 1 is gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.
      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 Tennyson.
      • VI. 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.
      ISBN
      0446527173
      LCCN
      2002016808
      OCLC
      49031283
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