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Fine unread condition beige marbled boards, brown spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Harold Bloom; Author Dedication; Preface; On This Book's Arrangement: Genius and Kabbalah; The Lustres; Gnosticism: The Religion of Literature; Introduction: What is Genius?; Genius: A Personal Definition and Coda: The Future of Genius. Illustrated with black-and-white portrait photographs and drawings. "A colossus among critics.His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant." - New York Times Sunday Magazine. "The indispensable critic." - New York Review of Books. "One of our biggest critical guns.vast learning and eleganct prose.an engaging antagonist." - Kirkus Reviews. "Brilliant, outrageous, headstrong, witty, heterodox, full of charm, immense learning, and tremendous zest." - Anthony Hecht. "To read Bloom's commentaries (as Hazlitt said abuot the great tragic actor Edmund Kean) is like reading classic authors by flashes of lightning." - M.H. Abrams. "America's paramount literary critic." - Houston Chronicle. "Our most valuable critic.Harold Bloom reminds us what matters." - Boston Globe. "In a monumental achievement of scholarship, America's preeminent literary critic presents an unprecedented celebration of one hundred of the most creative literary minds in history. 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 poeptry 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. 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." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.
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