Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds

First UK edition. Thick 8vo. Pp. xviii, 814 pp. Illus., 50 b/w photos. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; tan endpapers. Jacket design by Julian Humphries.

"This book is not a work of analysis or of close reading, but of surmise and juxtaposition". Harold Bloom, America's pre-eminent literary critic examines the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of one hundred of the most creative literary minds in history, which he arranges in an order based on the Kabbalah. Meticulously researched and insightful this massive work represents the distillation of fifty-years of teaching at Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League Universities.

"Harold Bloom is the leading critic of our time." –James Wood, The Guardian