Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature
by Joseph Epstein
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What constitutes literary genius? This collection of essays focuses on twenty-five English-language writers whose original and enduring works enrich our lives. Renowned portraitist Barry Moser provides a handsome engraving of each writer, together with illustrations based upon their texts.Tags
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Joseph Epstein is the author of the best-selling Snobbery and Friendship, as well as the short story collections. The Goldin Boys, Fabulous Small Jews, and Frozen in Time, among other books, and was formerly editor of the American Scholar. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, and other magazines. In 2003 he was show more awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush along with John Updike, Hal Holbrook, and Robert Ballard. A longtime teacher of English at Northwestern University, he lives in Evanston, Illinois. show less
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- People/Characters
- Geoffrey Chaucer; William Shakespeare; John Milton; Alexander Pope; Samuel Johnson; Edward Gibbon (show all 25); William Wordsworth; Jane Austen; William Hazlitt; John Keats; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Charles Dickens; Walt Whitman; Herman Melville; George Eliot; Emily Dickinson; Mark Twain; Henry James; Joseph Conrad; Willa Cather; Robert Frost; James Joyce; T. S. Eliot; William Faulkner; Ernest Hemingway
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- Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
—Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
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- 820.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
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- PR105 .L56 — Language and Literature English English Literature
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