In genius studies, Bloom 100 (Bloom 100:#) refers to the hundred greatest geniuses of language and literature according to Harold Bloom, as covered in his 2002 Genius: a Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. [1]
List
The following is Harold Bloom’s list of 100 literary and language geniuses, categorized by group: [1]
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References
1. Bloom, Harold. (2002). Genius: a Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (list). Fourth Estate.
List
The following is Harold Bloom’s list of 100 literary and language geniuses, categorized by group: [1]
| Crown | Wisdom | Understanding | Kindness | Severity |
| 1. William Shakespeare 2. Miguel de Cervantes 3. Michel Montaigne 4. John Milton 5. Leo Tolstoy 6. Lucretius 7. Virgil 8. Augustine 9. Dante Alighieri 10. Geoffrey Chaucer | 11. The Yahwist 12. Socrates 13. Plato 14. Saint Paul 15. Muhammad 16. Samuel Johnson 17. James Boswell 18. Johann Goethe 19. Sigmund Freud 20. Thomas Mann | 21. Friedrich Nietzsche 22. Soren Kierkegaard 23. Franz Kafka 24. Marcel Proust 25. Samuel Beckett 26. Moliere 27. Henrik Ibsen 28. Anton Chekhov 29. Oscar Wilde 30. Luigi Pirandello | 31. John Donne 32. Alexander Pope 33. Jonathan Swift 34. Jane Austen 35. Lady Murasaki 36. Nathaniel Hawthorne 37. Herman Melville 38. Charlotte Bronte 39. Emily Jane Brontë 40. Virginia Woolf | 41. Ralph Emerson 42. Emily Dickinson 43. Robert Frost 44. Wallace Stevens 45. T.S. Eliot 46. William Wordsworth 47. Percy Shelley 48. John Keats 49. Giacomo Leopardi 50. Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Beauty | Eternity | Foundation | Splendor | Kingship |
| 51. Algernon Charles Swinburne 52. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 53. Christina Rossetti 54. Walter Pater 55. Hugo von Hofmannsthal 56. Victor Hugo 57. Gerard de Nerval 58. Charles Baudelaire 59. Arthur Rimbaud 60. Paul Valery | 61. Homer 62. Luis Vaz de Camoes 63. James Joyce 64. Alejo Carpentier 65. Octavio Paz 66. Stendhal 67. Mark Twain 68. William Faulkner 69. Ernest Hemingway 70. Flannery O'Connor | 81. Gustave Flaubert 82. Jose Maria Ica de Queiroz 83. Joaquim Machado de Assis 84. Jorge Luis Borges 85. Italo Calvin 86. William Blake 87. D.H. Lawrence 88. Tennessee Williams 89. Rainer Maria Rilke 90. Eugenio Montale | 71. Walt Whitman 72. Fernando Pessoa 73. Hart Crane 74. Federico Garcia Lorca 75. Luis Cernuda 76. George Eliot 77. Willa Cather 78. Edith Wharton 79. Scott Fitzgerald 80. Iris Murdoch | 91. Honore Balzac 92. Lewis Carroll 93. Henry James 94. Robert Browning 95. William Yeats 96. Charles Dickens 97. Fyodor Dostoevsky 98. Isaac Babel 99. Paul Celan 100. Ralph Ellison |
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References
1. Bloom, Harold. (2002). Genius: a Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (list). Fourth Estate.