Publication
Imprint: Berkeley, California : University of California Press and New American Library, 1952. Responsibility: Edited by Brewster Ghiselin. OCLC Number: 183953. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 251 pages ; 18 cm.
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Inter / Ghise
Original publication date
1952-02-28
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Description: 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.
Table of Contents: Introduction -- Grewster Ghiselin
Mathematical creation -- Henri Poincaré
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
Conversations 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 the second edition of Lyrical Ballads -- William Wordsworth
Prefatory note to Kubla Khan -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The name and nature of peotry -- A. E. Housman
The course in poetics -- Paul Valery
Three pieces on the creative process -- William Butler Yeats
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 -- Llewelyn Powys
The story of a novel -- Henry Miller
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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Table of Contents: Introduction -- Grewster Ghiselin
Mathematical creation -- Henri Poincaré
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
Conversations 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 the second edition of Lyrical Ballads -- William Wordsworth
Prefatory note to Kubla Khan -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The name and nature of peotry -- A. E. Housman
The course in poetics -- Paul Valery
Three pieces on the creative process -- William Butler Yeats
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 -- Llewelyn Powys
The story of a novel -- Henry Miller
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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Physical description
251 p.; 18 cm
Description
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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Original language
English
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Material gathered for a symposium on the creative process. Articles by 38 "brilliant men and women".