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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America.  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bloom, Harold.  \nEssayists and prophets / Harold Bloom.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s 20th anniversary collection) ISBN 0-7910-8523-6 HC 0-7910-8524-4 PB  \n1. Philosophers. 2. Essayists. 3. Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title.  \nB29 .B56 2005 100—dc22  \n2005005523  \nCover designed by Takeshi Takahashi Cover illustration by David Levine Layout by EJB Publishing Services  \nB20A(Essayists) 3/15/05 7:22 PM Page v  \nTable of Contents  \nPREFACE  \nHarold Bloom  \nvii  \nINTRODUCTION  \nHarold Bloom  \nxiii  \nThe Bible  \nThe Book of Job / The Song of Songs / The Gospels / The Revelation of Saint John the Divine  \n1  \nMichel de Montaigne (1533–1592)  \n26  \nBlaise Pascal (1623–1662)  \n35  \nJohn Dryden (1631–1700)  \n41  \nSamuel Johnson (1709–1784)  \n47  \nJean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)  \n58  \nJames Boswell (1740–1795)  \n62  \nWilliam Hazlitt (1778–1830)  \n69  \nThomas Carlyle (1795–1881)  \n82  \nRalph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)  \n97  \nE S S A Y I S T S A N D P R O P H E T S  \nB20A(Essayists) 3/15/05 7:22 PM Page vi  \nSøren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)  \n110  \nHenry David Thoreau (1817–1862)  \n114  \nJohn Ruskin (1819–1900)  \n125  \nWalter Pater (1839–1894)  \n139  \nFriedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)  \n162  \nSigmund Freud (1856–1939)  \n170  \nW.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)  \n177  \nAldous Huxley (1894–1963)  \n181  \nGershom Scholem (1897–1982)  \n183  \nJean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)  \n202  \nAlbert Camus (1913–1960)  \n204  \nFURTHER READING 211  \nINDEX 213  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR 221  \nB20A(Essayists) 3/15/05 7:22 PM Page vii  \nPreface  \nHarold Bloom  \nE S S A Y I S T S A N D P R O P H E T S  \nI BEGAN EDITING ANTHOLOGIES OF LITERARY CRITICISM FOR CHELSEA House in early 1984, but the first volume, Edgar Allan Poe: Modern Critical Views, was published in January, 1985, so this is the twentieth anniversary of a somewhat Quixotic venture. If asked how many separate books have been issued in this project, I no longer have a precise answer, since in so long a span many volumes go out of print, and even whole series have been discontinued. A rough guess would be more than a thousand individual anthologies, a perhaps insane panoply to have been collected and introduced by a single critic.  \nSome of these books have surfaced in unlikely places: hotel rooms in Bologna and Valencia, Coimbra and Oslo; used-book stalls in Frankfurt and Nice; on the shelves of writers wherever I have gone. A batch were sent by me in answer to a request from a university library in Macedonia, and I have donated some of them, also by request, to a number of prisoners serving life sentences in American jails. A thousand books across a score of years can touch many shores and many lives, and at seventy-four I am a little bewildered at the strangeness of the endeavor, particularly now that it has leaped between centuries.  \nIt cannot be said that I have endorsed every critical essay reprinted, as my editor’s notes have made clear. Yet the books have to be reasonably reflective of current critical modes and educational fashions, not all of them provoking my own enthusiasm. But then I am a dinosaur, cheerfully naming myse","cbCaibNYEOrHiMPF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibNYEOrHiMPF","pdf",1435143,241,"English","# Preface\n# Introduction\n# The Bible\n## The Book of Job / The Song of Songs / The Gospels / The Revelation of Saint John the Divine\n# Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)\n# Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)\n# John Dryden (1631–1700)\n# Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)\n# Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)\n# James Boswell (1740–1795)\n# William Hazlitt (1778–1830)\n# Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)\n# Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)\n# Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)\n# Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)\n# John Ruskin (1819–1900)\n# Walter Pater (1839–1894)\n# Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)\n# Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)\n# W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)\n# Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)\n# Gershom Scholem (1897–1982)\n# Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)\n# Albert Camus (1913–1960)\n# Further Reading\n# Index\n# About the Author","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of the book “Essayists and Prophets”?\",\"answer\":\"It assembles Harold Bloom’s literary criticism in an anniversary collection, pairing broad interpretive focus with curated profiles of key writers and thinkers, including a section on Bible criticism.\"},{\"question\":\"Which sections are highlighted in the table of contents?\",\"answer\":\"The contents include a Preface, an Introduction, a Bible section covering multiple biblical texts, a long sequence of author-focused chapters, and the closing items Further Reading, Index, and About the Author.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the preface describe Bloom’s criteria for greatness in imaginative literature?\",\"answer\":\"The preface states that greatness rests on aesthetic splendor, cognitive power, and wisdom, and it discusses how changing notions of “relevance” fade over time.\"}]","Essayists and Prophets - Harold Bloom - Introduction | PDF",1790979185,371]