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Warner Books (2002), Trade Paperback, 814 pages
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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.
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LibraryThing member asallan
A wonderful resource for browsing authors. While Bloom does not go into any great depth, it is interesting to see what he picks as each author's hallmark piece, collecting snippets of analysis into an interesting examination of genius. A majority of Bloom's picks are safely within all general
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"canons," but he does offer some insights as to why one should read these authors. The book is fascinatingly organized, and serves well as a survey of great authors and works. Show Less
LibraryThing member NativeRoses
While i may not agree with Harold Bloom's politics, i greatly enjoy reading about his appreciation for classic authors. He has helped me enjoy some works more deeply.
This is a fun book to browse through now and then.
This is a fun book to browse through now and then.
LibraryThing member SaraPrindiville
I only got up to the 50th author. I will finish it later (so I say). Wonderful. Lots of info about authors I didn't know about. Most of those discussed I have at least heard of, but in the discussion of them, others are brought up which I haven't. Most useful.
LibraryThing member HadriantheBlind
Impressive encyclopedia survey of some 100 writers Bloom considers to have some aspect of genius. Organization is haphazard and arbitrary, but Bloom admits as much, listing them in an unusual Gnostic way.
Alternately witty and pompous in equal measure, but no doubt extremely informative.
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Alternately witty and pompous in equal measure, but no doubt extremely informative.
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particular note is that this is the last book in my 2011 reading challenge. Fitting. Show Less
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2002
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814 p.; 5.75 inches
ISBN
0446691291 / 9780446691291
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READIN, lr table
contents:
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
luste 3, the yahwist, socrates, 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, soren kierkegaard, franz kafka, marcel proust, samuel beckett
lustre 6, moliere, 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 bronte, emily bronte, anne bronte, 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, gerard de nerval, charles baudelaire, arthur rimbaud, paul valery, vii: nezah
lustre 13, homer, luis vaz de cameos, 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 garcia lorca, luis cernuda
lustre 16, george eliot, willa cather, edith wharton, f. scott fitzgerald, iris murdoch, ix: yesod
lustre 17, gustave flaubert, jose maria eca de queiroz, jocquim maria machado de assis, jorge luis borge, italo calvino
lustre 18, william blake, d.h. lawrence, tennessee williams, rainer maria rilke, eugenio montale, x: malkhut
lustre 19, honre de balzac, lewis carroll, henry james, robert browning, william butler yeats
lustre 20, charles dickens, fydor dostoevsky, issac babel, paul celan, ralph ellison
contents:
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
luste 3, the yahwist, socrates, 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, soren kierkegaard, franz kafka, marcel proust, samuel beckett
lustre 6, moliere, 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 bronte, emily bronte, anne bronte, 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, gerard de nerval, charles baudelaire, arthur rimbaud, paul valery, vii: nezah
lustre 13, homer, luis vaz de cameos, 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 garcia lorca, luis cernuda
lustre 16, george eliot, willa cather, edith wharton, f. scott fitzgerald, iris murdoch, ix: yesod
lustre 17, gustave flaubert, jose maria eca de queiroz, jocquim maria machado de assis, jorge luis borge, italo calvino
lustre 18, william blake, d.h. lawrence, tennessee williams, rainer maria rilke, eugenio montale, x: malkhut
lustre 19, honre de balzac, lewis carroll, henry james, robert browning, william butler yeats
lustre 20, charles dickens, fydor dostoevsky, issac babel, paul celan, ralph ellison