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Genius (2002) (edit title/settings)

A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds

by Harold Bloom (Author) (edit contributors)

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A monumental achievement of scholarship, GENIUS examines 100 of the most creative and literary minds in history. From the Bible to Socrates, through the transcendent achievements of Shakespeare and Dante, down through the ages to Hemingway, Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, Bloom discusses the... read more

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Keter or the crown, in Kabbalah at once everything and nothingness, begins with this first Lustre of masters, each of whom dominates his genre forever.

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Preface
On This Book's Arrangement: Genius and Kabbalah
The Lustres
Gnosticism: The Religion of Literature
Introduction: 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 Steven, 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, Luís Vaz de Camões, James Joyve, 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 de Eça de Queiroz, Jaoquim 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

Coda: The Future of Genius

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  1. Harold Bloom (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Warner Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0446527173
Page Count: 832

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