诗有多种读法，是毫无疑问的。一首诗可以读出许多本书。
Harold Bloom 读一百个诗人，Costica Bradatan 读 Harold Bloom, 我来读Costica Bradatan。:) 到最后，其实最关键的还是读诗人本人的诗。但诗海无边，Bloom 的一百诗人图大略给我们编出一个星座图，让你一边读，心里对 grand scheme of things 有个大致的方向感，准确与否又有什么要紧。
有趣的是，他的目录用的是犹太人的 Kabbalah 顺序，新鲜有趣。：）
http://www.geminus.org/books/books.php?type=de&id=1516
A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds
by Harold Bloom
Warner Books, 2002
Review by Costica Bradatan on Jan 20th 2003
In general, Bloom is a master of showing how one has to approach a work of literature in order to fully enjoy it and make the most of it. In a world in which the endlessly sophisticated interpretations proposed by the secondary literature tend to overwhelm, suffocate, and ultimately destroy that which is interpreted, Bloom teaches his readers how to read the perennial works of world literature. (One of his previous books is significantly titled How to Read and Why). It happens sometimes that simplicity and commonsense are the most difficult things to attain, and Harold Bloom teaches us how to approach Shakespeare, Milton, Borges, St. Augustine, Cervantes, Plato, and even the Scriptures: without prejudices, without ideological or political lenses, without any useless sophistication and presumptuousness, but with common sense, freshness, humility.
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In his book Bloom does not simply portray, however sketchily, one hundred “exemplary minds”: he is much more daring than that. He endeavors to offer a “principle of order” governing the complex, multifaceted realm of the history of imaginative literature, and — moreover — to derive this principle from a venerated tradition of esoteric and theosophical thought belonging to the Jewish spirituality. And it is at this point that Bloom’s project reveals its indubitable and courageous originality: “From the time …when I first conceived of this book, the image of the Kabbalistic Sefirot has been in my mind. Kabbalah is a body of speculation, relying upon a highly figurative language. Chief among its figurations or metaphors are the Sefirot, attributes at once of God and of the Adam Kadmon or Divine Man, God’s Image. These attributes or qualities emanate out from a center that is nowhere or nothing, being infinite, to a circumference both everywhere and finite.” (xi) The one hundred geniuses dealt with in Bloom’s book (and, very importantly, they are not only poets, dramatists or novelists, but also philosophers, psychoanalysts, religious thinkers, founders of religion) are thus divided into ten groups, corresponding to the ten Sefirot of the Kabbalistic tradition: Keter, Hokmah, Binah, Hesed, Din, Tiferet, Nezah, Hod, Yesod, and Malkhut. Then, each Sefirah has two “lustres”, with each of them covering five kindred “exemplary minds”. As such, by placing it within this complex scheme, and massively relying upon the dialectics of the Kabbalistic thinking, Bloom makes each individual genius reveal something essential about divinity. If we can have some form of access to the divine nature, this is made possible, in Bloom’s view, only by the tremendous creative efforts of the geniuses of language. “The Sefirot are the center of Kabbalah, since they purport to represent God’s inwardness, the secret of divine character and personality. They are the attributes of God’s genius, in every sense that I use ‘genius’ in this book” (xii) It is as if through the works of a genius some divine and primordial wisdom is brought forth; in other words, whenever we come across a piece of great literature, it is God himself — or, anyway, something divine — who in some way describes himself through those pages. According to this line of thought, the great literature of all ages and of all peoples has some religious dimension — it is work in the service of God as it reminds us incessantly of God himself as Creator: the ten “Sefirot chart the process of creation; they are the names of God as he works at creating. The Sefirot are metaphors so large that they become poems in themselves, or even poets.” (xi)
Table of Contents
Preface ix
On This Book's Arrangement: Genius and Kabbalah ix
The Lustres xv
Gnosticism: The Religion of Literature xvii
Introduction: What is Genius? 1 (10)
Genius: A Personal Definition 11 (2)
Keter CROWN 王冠 13 (98)
William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, 15 (52)
Michel de Montaigne, John Milton, Leo
Tolstoy
Lucretius, Vergil, Saint Augustine, Dante 67 (44)
Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer
Hokmah WISDOM：智慧 111 (78)
The Yahwist, Socrates and Plato, Saint 113 (42)
Paul, Muhammad
Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Johann 155 (34)
Wolfgang von Goethe, Sigmund Freud, Thomas
Mann
Binah Intellect in a receptive mode 智力 189 (68)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren 191 (34)
Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust,
Samuel Beckett
Moliere, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Oscar 225 (32)
Wilde, Luigi Pirandello
Hesed the bountiful covenant love that issues from God (or from women and men) 约定之爱；缘 257 (76)
John Donne, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, 259 (40)
Jane Austen, Lady Murasaki
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, 299 (34)
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte,
Virginia Woolf
Din Gevurah: strict judgment 法规 333 (86)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, 335 (40)
Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot
William Wordsworth; Percy Bysshe Shelley; 375 (44)
John Keats; Giacomo Leopardi; Alfred, Lord
Tennyson
Tiferet Beauty, also known as Rahamin or compassion 美，或激情 419 (78)
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel 421 (34)
Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater,
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Victor Hugo, Gerard de Nerval, Charles 455 (42)
Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valery
Nezah God's victory, eternal endurance that cannot be defeated 天命；命运 497 (84)
Homer, Luis Vaz de Camoes, James Joyce, 499 (52)
Alejo Carpentier, Octavio Paz
Stendhal, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, 551 (30)
Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor
Hod the splender or majesty that has prophetic force 预言 581 (70)
Walt Whitman, Fernando Pessoa, Hart Crane, 583 (36)
Federico Garcia Lorca, Luis Cernuda
George Eliot, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, 619 (32)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Iris Murdoch
Yesod foundation 基础 (masters of erotic narrative and heroic vitalists) 651 (78)
Gustave Flaubert, Jose Maria Eca de 653 (40)
Queiroz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis,
Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino
William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee 693 (36)
Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke, Eugenio
Montale
Malkhut The Kingdom 王国 （Deep inwardness) 729 (84)
Honore de Balzac, Lewis Carroll, Henry 731 (44)
James, Robert Browning, William Butler Yeats
Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac 775 (38)
Babel, Paul Celan, Ralph Ellison
Coda: The Future of Genius 813
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