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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION : 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
