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This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell, Rudyard Kipling, Max Ernst, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry Miller, Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Wigman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Henri Poincaré and many others.

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Author:   Brewster Ghiselin ,  Brewster Ghiselin
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520054530

ISBN 10:   0520054539
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   22 November 1985
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION : Brewster Ghiselin MATHEMATICAL CREATION : Henri Poincare LETTER TO JACQUES HADAMARD : Albert Einstein A LETTER : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart THE COMPOSER AND HIS MESSAGE : Roger Sessions THE MUSICAL MIND : Harold Shapero LETTER TO ANTON RIDDER VAN RAPPARD : Vincent van Gogh CONVERSATION WITH PICASSO: Christian Zervos EAST TO WEST : Yasuo Kuniyoshi BEFORE PARIS AND AFTER : Julian Levi INSPIRATION TO ORDER : Max Ernst MAKING PICTURES : D. H. Lawrence NOTES ON SCULPTURE : Henry Moore COMPOSITION IN PURE MOVEMENT : Mary Wigman DEDICATION OF THE RIVAL-LADIES : John Dryden THE PROCESS OF INSPIRATION : Jean Cocteau PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION OF LYRICAL BALLADS : William Wordsworth PREFATORY NOTE TO KUBLA KHAN : Samuel Taylor Coleridge THE NAME AND NATURE OF POETRY : A. E. Housman THE COURSE IN POETICS: FIRST LESSON : Paul Valery THREE PIECES ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS : William Butler Yeats THE THINKING OF THE BODY PREFACE TO THE KING OF THE GREAT CLOCK TOWER LONG-LEGGED FLY THE PROCESS OF MAKING POETRY : Amy Lowell THE MAKING OF A POEM : Stephen Spender THE BIRTH OF A POEM : Brewster Ghiselin NARCISSUS AS NARCISSUS : Allen Tate REMEMBERING HART CRANE : Malcolm Cowley PREFACE TO THE SPOILS OF POYNTON : Henry James WORKING-TOOLS : Rudyard Kipling A CONVERSATION WITH GERTRUDE STEIN : John Hyde Preston HOW FLINT AND FIRE STARTED AND GREW : Dorothy Canfield LETTER TO WARNER TAYLOR : Uewelyn Powys REFLECTIONS ON WRITING : Henry Miller THE STORY OF A NOVEL : Thomas Wolfe NOTES ON WRITING : Katherine Anne Porter COMPOSITION OF THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA : Friedrich Nietzsche SUBCONSCIOUS INTELLIGENCE UNDERLYING DREAMS : Morton Prince PSYCHOLOGY AND LITERATURE : Carl Gustav Jung CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE ELIOT : Herbert Spencer THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF IMAGINATION : R. W. Gerard

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Brewster Ghiselin is Professor Emeritus of English and Doctor of Humane Letters H.C. at the University of Utah.

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