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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

“The 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time”


“The 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time”



~ Edited by J. E. Luebering: Manager and Senior Editor, Literature.



~ Published in 2010 by Britannica Educational Publishing (a trademark of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.), in association with Rosen Educational Services, LLC. ~ 2010 ~ 352 pp



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~ It has been said that when it comes to success, it isn’t what you know, but who you know. “The 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time” is one title in this 8 book series, in which readers get the best of both worlds. Concise but information-packed biographies detail the lives and life’s work of hundreds of leading individuals from an assortment of disciplines. Readers will get to know the foremost minds within science, art, writing, music, invention, politics and philosophy. Each valuable compendium offers a comprehensive index, complementary visuals, and behind-the-scenes details that reveal the very human nature behind world-changing personalities.



“The 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time”: Homer Aeschylus Sophocles Aristophanes Gaius Valerius Catullus Virgil Imru’ al-Qays Du Fu al-Mutanabbī Ferdowsī Murasaki Shikibu Rūmī Dante Petrarch Geoffrey Chaucer Luís de Camões Michel de Montaigne Miguel de Cervantes Edmund Spenser Lope de Vega Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare John Donne John Milton Jean Racine Aphra Behn Bashō Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Voltaire Henry Fielding Samuel Johnson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Robert Burns William Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jane Austen George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Aleksandr Pushkin Victor Hugo Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens Robert Browning Charlotte Brontë Henry David Thoreau Emily Brontë Walt Whitman Herman Melville George Eliot Charles Baudelaire Fyodor Dostoyevsky Gustave Flaubert Henrik Ibsen Leo Tolstoy Emily Dickinson Lewis Carroll Mark Twain Émile Zola Henry James August Strindberg Oscar Wilde Arthur Rimbaud George Bernard Shaw Anton Chekhov Rabindranath Tagore William Butler Yeats Luigi Pirandello Marcel Proust Robert Frost Thomas Mann Lu Xun Virginia Woolf James Joyce Franz Kafka T. S. Eliot Eugene O’Neill Anna Akhmatova William Faulkner Vladimir Nabokov Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck George Orwell Pablo Neruda Samuel Beckett Richard Wright Eudora Welty Naguib Mahfouz Albert Camus Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Jack Kerouac Flannery O’Connor Toni Morrison Wole Soyinka J. K. Rowling.



On the cover: The influence of William Shakespeare, considered the greatest dramatist of all time, has spread far and wide and transcends the ages.

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~ The {Title} is taken from Borges' {The Library at Babel} ~

Borges' "The Library at Babel" is a story that encompasses a world. The world that is a library, a library that is a universe broken into endless hexagons connected by stairs and hallways. It's unlike any library that has ever existed, a library of the mind, a virtual library, and as such the source of imaginative illustration. I've encountered pictures of its hexagonal galleries and infinite air shafts on Web Sites, and recently the story was re-published in hardcover with engravings by Erik Desmazieres, who gave the Library's interior a spooky look that I associate with the interiors of Ridley Scott's 1979 science-fiction. Many, of course, would choose to interpret the story in a more philosophical manner. Certainly a case can be made to see the story as a parable about man's search for God, or man's essential ignorance of the world, or of the chaos of the universe. While I acknowledge the story's visual and philosophical qualities, it has a personal connection. It evokes what I would call the large-library experience. Borges' nameless librarian, an administrator of some minor sort - if the library is infinite, all administrators are minor - recollects, "Like all men of the library, I have traveled in my youth, I have wandered in search of a book." Reading this, I think of my own rambles through stacks and shelves both as a student and an unattached "scholar." I've wandered through libraries looking for or just at books, feeling their collective weight, reading titles, puzzling at the cipher of numbers and letters by which they are classified. I have been lost in corridors of books like one drifting through the pinched streets of some foreign town, though indeed these rambles have taken part in and around my home. Books as realia have been part of this attraction. Strolling between shelves of bound volumes, I feel I'm pressed between the scales of some vast and dormant beast. Opened, each book presents a small bracket of hard space and distilled experience that, when joined in imagination with other books, create the sensation of time congealed. Books in vast quantities form a reality greater than the sum of their parts. Unlike museums, whether of science or art, that enfold me in a history of eras and schools and "movements," large libraries point beyond their realia. They go from the tangible to the intangible, from the temporal to the timeless, from the momentary to the eternal. Masses of books suggest the infinite. - Garrett Rowlan

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I've travelled the World twice over,

Met the famous: Saints and Sinners,

Poets and Artists, Kings and Queens,

Old stars and hopeful Beginners,

I've been where no-one's been before,

Learned secrets from Writers
and Cooks,

All with one "Library Ticket",

To the wonderful World of books.


- JANICE JAMES



The movement of atoms is eternal.


Thrown through the void,
either by their own weight
or by the impact of other atoms,
they wander
until chance brings them together.


Some of them manage to cling together;
they form the most solid bodies.


Others,
more mobile,
are separated by a greater distance;
they form the less dense bodies,
air and light.


Some did not wish to be admitted to any group;
they move around gloriously and endlessly in space,
like dust motes lit up by rays of light in a dark room.

[from Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, recited by Rousseau in La vallée close]



~ This seemingly simple poetry reminds us that every work of Art is relative to the Grand Time wherein it was sprout, and is to be judged thus. We won't/ might not hold a good opinion when we read and consider these lines now, after two decades of Stephen Hawking and 'A Brief History of Time'. This poem was written in First Century BC, by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius. Now, do we ought to re-think and re-consider our opinion? Epicurean Physics, atomism, the nature of the mind and soul, explanations of sensation and thought, the development of the world and its phenomena, a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena, arguments about God, Lucretius' Physics - everything is here, in these simple lines of poetry ~




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