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Geniuses, visualized

Keter (crown) 1) William Shakespeare 2) Miguel de Cervantes 3) Michel de Montaigne 4) John Milton 5) Leo Tolstoy 6) Lucretius 7) Vergil 8) Saint Augustine 9) Dante Alighieri 10) Geoffrey Chaисer 2 Hokmah (wisdom) 11) The Yahwist 12) Socrates 13) Plato 14) Saint Paul 15) Muhammad 16) Dr. Samuel Johnson 17) James Boswell 18) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 19) Sigmund Freud 20) Thomas Mann 10 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 21 22 19 26 16 17 18 15 Keter (crown) 11 12 13 14 Geniuses, visualized Binah (understanding) Hokmah (wisdom) Binah (understanding) 21) Friedrich Nietzsche 22) Søren Kierkegaard 23) Franz Kafka 24) Marcel Proust 25) Samuel Beckett 26) Molière 27) Henrik Ibsen 28) Anton Chekhov 29) Oscar Wilde 30) Luigi Pirandello : The visualisation explores the one hundred geniuses of language identified in the book "Genius" by Harold Bloom. The composition of the individuals mirrors the structure of the chapters in the book, using the form of the Kabbalah Sephirot. Each individual is displayed by name, historical period of activity, main profession, continent of origin, number of pages dedicated in the book, visits to the relative pages on wikipedia.org, and relationships with other historical figures. 41 42 43 44 45 47 48 49 50 34 36 37 38 39 40 31 32 33 46 35 Hesed (kindness) 31) John Donne 32) Alexander Pope 33) Jonathan Swift 34) Jane Austem 35) Lady Murasaki 36) Nathaniel Hawthorne 37) Нerman Melville 38) Charlotte Brontë 39) Emily Jane Brontë 40) Virginia Woolf Din (severity) 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Hesed (kindness) 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 63 64 65 67 68 69 70 62 66 Din (severity) 41) Ralph Waldo Emerson 42) Emily Dickinson 43) Robert Frost 44) Wallace Stevens 45) T.S. Eliot 46) William Wordsworth 47) Percy Bysshe Shelley 48) John Keats 49) Giacomo Leopardi 50) Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tiferet (beauty) 81 82 83 84 85 87 88 89 90 Hod (splendor) Nezah (eternity) 86 How to read it? Tiferet (beauty) 51) Algernon Charles Swinburne 52) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 53) Christina Rossetti 54) Walter Pater 55) Hugo von Hofmannsthal 56) Victor Hugo 57) Gérard de Nerval 58) Charles Baudelaire 59) Arthur Rimbaud 60) Paul Valéry Nezah (eternity) 61) Hотer 62) Luis Vaz de Camões 63) James Joyce 64) Alejo Carpentier 65) Octavio Paz 66) Stendhal 67) Mark Twain 68) William Faulkner 69) Ernest Hemingway 70) Flannery O'Connor blue circle size* = number of page visits on wikipedia.org in 2012 . number of related historical figures (britannica.com) yellow circle size* = number of pages dedicated in the book Yesod (foundament) genius line type = profession colors = continent woтаn curve lenght: = birth period other Europe philosopher 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 Hod (splendor) 71) Walt Whitman 72) Fernando Pessoa 73) Hart Crane 74) Federico García Lorca 75) Luis Cernuda 76) George Eliot 77) Willa Cather 78) Edith Wharton 79) F. Scott Fitzgerald 80) Iris Murdoch Yesod (foundation) 81) Gustave Flaubert 82) José Maria Eça de Queiroz 83) Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 84) Jorge Luis Borges 85) Italo Calvino 86) William Blake 87) D.H. Lawrence 88) Tennessee Williams 89) Rainer Maria Rilke 90) Eugenio Montale Malkut (kingship) 91) Honoré de Balzac 92) Lewis Carroll 93) Непry James 94) Robert Browning 95) William Butler Yeats 96) Charles Dickens 97) Fyodor Dostoevsky 98) Isaac Babel 99) Paul Celan 100) Ralph Ellison Asia Contemporary times poet Africa writer Modern times Latin America Northern America Ancient times not available antic age *upon the basis of 5 scaled intervals Sources: Harold Bloom, “Genius" italian edition Rizzoli, 2002; britannica.com; toolserver.org Malkut (kingship) 002:+ ...... •. •... :::: ..... ..... •.... ..... 008: .... .....00: •008: •00F:+ •... ....4 • R. ...

Geniuses, visualized

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The visualisation explores the one hundred geniuses of language identified in the book "Genius" by Harold Bloom. The composition of the individuals mirrors the structure of the chapters in the book, u...

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