| Physical description |
xviii, 814 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
I. Keter 13 -- Lustre 1 William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Michel de Montaigne, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy 15 -- Lustre 2 Lucretius, Vergil, Saint Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer 67 -- II. Hokmah 111 -- Lustre 3 Yahwist, Socrates and Plato, Saint Paul, Muhammad 113 -- Lustre 4 Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann 155 -- III. Binah 189 -- Lustre 5 Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett 191 -- Lustre 6 Moliere, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde, Luigi Pirandello 225 -- IV. Hesed 257 -- Lustre 7 John Donne, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Lady Murasaki 259 -- Lustre 8 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Virginia Woolf 299 -- V. Din 333 -- Lustre 9 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot 335 -- Lustre 10 William Wordsworth; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats; Giacomo Leopardi; Alfred, Lord Tennyson 375 -- VI. Tiferet 419 -- Lustre 11 Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, Hugo von Hofmannsthal 421 -- Lustre 12 Victor Hugo, Gerard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valery 455 -- VII. Nezah 497 -- Lustre 13 Homer, Luis Vaz de Camoes, James Joyce, Alejo Carpentier, Octavio Paz 499 -- Lustre 14 Stendhal, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor 551 -- VIII. Hod 581 -- Lustre 15 Walt Whitman, Fernando Pessoa, Hart Crane, Federico Garcia Lorca, Luis Cernuda 583 -- Lustre 16 George Eliot, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Iris Murdoch 619 -- IX. Yesod 651 -- Lustre 17 Gustave Flaubert, Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino 653 -- Lustre 18 William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke, Eugenio Montale 693 -- X. Malkhut 729 -- Lustre 19 Honore de Balzac, Lewis Carroll, Henry James, Robert Browning, William Butler Yeats 731 -- Lustre 20 Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, Paul Celan, Ralph Ellison 775 -- Coda: The Future of Genius 813. |
| Summary |
"What is genius? It is the trait, says Harold Bloom, of standing both of and above its age, the ancient principle that recognizes and hallows the God within us, and the gift of breathing life into what is best in every living person." "From the Bible to Socrates, through the transcendent achievements of Shakespeare and Dante, down through the ages to Hemingway, Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, the author explores the numerous parallels between his chosen geniuses and the surprising ways they have influenced one another over the centuries. Genius also offers revealing excerpts from their works that continue to surprise, enchant, and move readers time after time. Suffused with his infectious and inexhaustible enthusiasm, Bloom's insightful analyses of the poetry of Milton, Shelley, and Whitman; the drama of Ibsen and Tennessee Williams; and the narratives of Melville and Tolstoy, among many others, illuminate and expand our common understanding and love of these great works of art.". |
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"Illustrated with portraits of many of the featured writers, this book is the culmination of Harold Bloom's half-century of teaching and writing about literature - and a grand yet intimate tour of Western literary and spiritual culture in one magnificent volume. Enriching as it informs, Genius is a book to savor and to treasure."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Genius.
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Gifted persons.
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| ISBN |
0446527173 |
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0446527173 $35.95 |
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