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Dry Books, Incorporated, Paul
ISBN-10
1589880358
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9781589880351
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Book Title
Literary Genius : 25 Classic Writers Who Define English and American Literature
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, American / General, Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes, Moser, Barry
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Author
Joseph Epstein
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Trade Paperback

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0.7 in
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18.7 Oz
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9.3 in
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7.4 in

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2007-023301
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22
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828.08
Table Of Content
1. Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer; 2. Lois Potter on William Shakespeare; 3. Reynolds Price on John Milton; 4. Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope; 5. David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson; 6. David Womersley on Edward Gibbon; 7. Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth; 8. Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen; 9. Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt; 10. Evan Boland on John Keats; 11. Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne; 12. A. N. Wilson on Charles Dickens; 13. Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman; 14. William Pritchard on Herman Melville; 15. Paula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot; 16. Bruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson; 17. David Carkeet on Mark Twain; 18. Joseph Epstein on Henry James; 19. Elizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad; 20. Stephen Cox on Willa Cather; 21. Robert Pack on Robert Frost; 22. Joseph Blotner on William Faulkner; 23. John Gross on James Joyce; 24. John Simon on T.S. Eliot; 25. James L. W. West III on Ernest Hemingway
Synopsis
Our finest essayists discuss six centuries of literary genius. "Genius is one of those words upon which the world has agreed to form no clear consensus," Joseph Epstein tells us in his introduction. How then shall we define "literary genius"? In this collection, twenty-five contemporary authors endeavor to answer that question by considering twenty-five classic writers and their enduring works. We learn that, more important than mere originality or creativity, it is the ability to make us experience the world in new ways that sets these writers apart. "My task," Joseph Conrad wrote, "is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel--it is above all to make you see. That--and no more, and it is everything." Wood-engraved portraits and illustrations by renowned artist Barry Moser accompany each essay. Contents: 1. Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Lois Potter on William Shakespeare 3. Reynolds Price on John Milton 4. Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope 5. David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson 6. David Womersley on Edward Gibbon 7. Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth 8. Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen 9. Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt 10. Evan Boland on John Keats 11. Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne 12. A. N. Wilson on Charles Dickens 13. Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman 14. William Pritchard on Herman Melville 15. Paula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot 16. Bruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson 17. David Carkeet on Mark Twain 18. Joseph Epstein on Henry James 19. Elizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad 20. Stephen Cox on Willa Cather 21. Robert Pack on Robert Frost 22. Joseph Blotner on William Faulkner 23. John Gross on James Joyce 24. John Simon on T.S. Eliot 25. James L. W. West III on Ernest Hemingway Joseph Epstein, from his introduction: "Literary genius comes in many varieties. Some literary geniuses seem natural (Charles Dickens, Mark Twain), others cultivated (George Eliot, Henry James). Some are prolific (Wordsworth, Whitman), some are more carefully concentrated (Jane Austen, T. S. Eliot). Some literary geniuses are stimulated by the difficult (Alexander Pope, John Milton). Some require absolute originality -- entailing the need to invent their own style -- to convey their vision (James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway). Some have perfected a form (Pope, the heroic couplet), some have tried to kill off a genre (Joyce, the novel). Not some but all literary geniuses can be read again and again, down through the generations. As Hilary Mantel, in her essay on Jane Austen, writes: 'Surely this is the definition of genius in a writer: the capacity to make a text that can give and give, a text that is never fully read, a text that goes on multiplying meanings.' Timelessness this is called, and it is another of the hallmarks of literary genius." Joseph Epstein is the author of nineteen books, most recently In a Cardboard Belt : Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage . For more than twenty years he was editor of The American Scholar . A contributor to The New Yorker , Commentary , The Atlantic , the Times Literary Supplement , and other magazines, he also taught for many years in the English Department at Northwestern University. Barry Moser is an illustrator, author, and designer whose work appears in museums and libraries around the world. He has published nearly three hundred titles, including Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , which won the American Book Award in 1983. In 1991 he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his collaboration with Cynthia Rylant, Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds . A member of the National Academy of Design, he has served on the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design and is currently on the faculty of Smith College., Our finest essayists discuss six centuries of literary genius. "Genius is one of those words upon which the world has agreed to form no clear consensus," Joseph Epstein tells us in his introduction. How then shall we define "literary genius"? In this collection, twenty-five contemporary authors endeavor to answer that question by considering twenty-five classic writers and their enduring works. We learn that, more important than mere originality or creativity, it is the ability to make us experience the world in new ways that sets these writers apart. "My task," Joseph Conrad wrote, "is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel--it is above all to make you see. That--and no more, and it is everything." Wood-engraved portraits and illustrations by renowned artist Barry Moser accompany each essay. Contents: 1. Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Lois Potter on William Shakespeare 3. Reynolds Price on John Milton 4. Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope 5. David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson 6. David Womersley on Edward Gibbon 7. Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth 8. Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen 9. Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt 10. Evan Boland on John Keats 11. Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne 12. A. N. Wilson on Charles Dickens 13. Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman 14. William Pritchard on Herman Melville 15. Paula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot 16. Bruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson 17. David Carkeet on Mark Twain 18. Joseph Epstein on Henry James 19. Elizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad 20. Stephen Cox on Willa Cather 21. Robert Pack on Robert Frost 22. Joseph Blotner on William Faulkner 23. John Gross on James Joyce 24. John Simon on T.S. Eliot 25. James L. W. West III on Ernest Hemingway Joseph Epstein, from his introduction: "Literary genius comes in many varieties. Some literary geniuses seem natural (Charles Dickens, Mark Twain), others cultivated (George Eliot, Henry James). Some are prolific (Wordsworth, Whitman), some are more carefully concentrated (Jane Austen, T. S. Eliot). Some literary geniuses are stimulated by the difficult (Alexander Pope, John Milton). Some require absolute originality -- entailing the need to invent their own style -- to convey their vision (James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway). Some have perfected a form (Pope, the heroic couplet), some have tried to kill off a genre (Joyce, the novel). Not some but all literary geniuses can be read again and again, down through the generations. As Hilary Mantel, in her essay on Jane Austen, writes: ''Surely this is the definition of genius in a writer: the capacity to make a text that can give and give, a text that is never fully read, a text that goes on multiplying meanings.'' Timelessness this is called, and it is another of the hallmarks of literary genius." Joseph Epstein is the author of nineteen books, most recently In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage . For more than twenty years he was editor of The American Scholar . A contributor to The New Yorker , Commentary , The Atlantic , the Times Literary Supplement , and other magazines, he also taught for many years in the English Department at Northwestern University. Barry Moser is an illustrator, author, and designer whose work appears in museums and libraries around the world. He has published nearly three hundred titles, including Lewis Carroll''s Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland , which won the American Book Award in 1983. In 1991 he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his collaboration with Cynthia Rylant, Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds . A member of the National Academy of Design, he has served on the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design and is currently on the faculty of Smith College., Our finest essayists discuss six centuries of literary genius. Genius is one of those words upon which the world has agreed to form no clear consensus, Joseph Epstein tells us in his introduction. How then shall we define literary genius? In this collection, twenty-five contemporary authors endeavor to answer that question by considering twenty-five classic writers and their enduring works. We learn that, more important than mere originality or creativity, it is the ability to make us experience the world in new ways that sets these writers apart. My task, Joseph Conrad wrote, is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel--it is above all to make you see. That--and no more, and it is everything. Wood-engraved portraits and illustrations by renowned artist Barry Moser accompany each essay. Contents: 1. Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Lois Potter on William Shakespeare 3. Reynolds Price on John Milton 4. Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope 5. David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson 6. David Womersley on Edward Gibbon 7. Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth 8. Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen 9. Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt 10. Evan Boland on John Keats 11. Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne 12. A. N. Wilson on Charles Dickens 13. Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman 14. William Pritchard on Herman Melville 15. Paula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot 16. Bruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson 17. David Carkeet on Mark Twain 18. Joseph Epstein on Henry James 19. Elizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad 20. Stephen Cox on Willa Cather 21. Robert Pack on Robert Frost 22. Joseph Blotner on William Faulkner 23. John Gross on James Joyce 24. John Simon on T.S. Eliot 25. James L. W. West III on Ernest Hemingway Joseph Epstein, from his introduction: Literary genius comes in many varieties. Some literary geniuses seem natural (Charles Dickens, Mark Twain), others cultivated (George Eliot, Henry James). Some are prolific (Wordsworth, Whitman), some are more carefully concentrated (Jane Austen, T. S. Eliot). Some literary geniuses are stimulated by the difficult (Alexander Pope, John Milton). Some require absolute originality -- entailing the need to invent their own style -- to convey their vision (James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway). Some have perfected a form (Pope, the heroic couplet), some have tried to kill off a genre (Joyce, the novel). Not some but all literary geniuses can be read again and again, down through the generations. As Hilary Mantel, in her essay on Jane Austen, writes: 'Surely this is the definition of genius in a writer: the capacity to make a text that can give and give, a text that is never fully read, a text that goes on multiplying meanings.' Timelessness this is called, and it is another of the hallmarks of literary genius. Joseph Epstein is the author of nineteen books, most recently In a Cardboard Belt : Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage . For more than twenty years he was editor of The American Scholar . A contributor to The New Yorker , Commentary , The Atlantic , the Times Literary Supplement , and other magazines, he also taught for many years in the English Department at Northwestern University. Barry Moser is an illustrator, author, and designer whose work appears in museums and libraries around the world. He has published nearly three hundred titles, including Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , which won the American Book Award in 1983. In 1991 he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his collaboration with Cynthia Rylant, Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds . A member of the National Academy of Design, he has served on the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design and is currently on the faculty of Smith College.
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PR105.L56 2007

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