Creative Process

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

• INTRODUCTION : Brewster GhiselinMATHEMATICAL CREATION : Henri PoincareLETTER TO JACQUES HADAMARD : Albert EinsteinA LETTER : Wolfgang Amadeus MozartTHE COMPOSER AND HIS MESSAGE : Roger SessionsTHE MUSICAL MIND : Harold ShaperoLETTER TO ANTON RIDDER VAN RAPPARD : Vincent van GoghCONVERSATION WITH PICASSO: Christian ZervosEAST TO WEST : Yasuo KuniyoshiBEFORE PARIS AND AFTER : Julian LeviINSPIRATION TO ORDER : Max ErnstMAKING PICTURES : D. H. LawrenceNOTES ON SCULPTURE : Henry MooreCOMPOSITION IN PURE MOVEMENT : Mary WigmanDEDICATION OF THE RIVAL-LADIES : John DrydenTHE PROCESS OF INSPIRATION : Jean CocteauPREFACE TO SECOND EDITION OF LYRICAL BALLADS : William WordsworthPREFATORY NOTE TO KUBLA KHAN : Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTHE NAME AND NATURE OF POETRY : A. E. HousmanTHE COURSE IN POETICS: FIRST LESSON : Paul ValeryTHREE PIECES ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS : William Butler YeatsTHE THINKING OF THE BODYPREFACE TO THE KING OF THE GREAT CLOCK TOWERLONG-LEGGED FLYTHE PROCESS OF MAKING POETRY : Amy LowellTHE MAKING OF A POEM : Stephen SpenderTHE BIRTH OF A POEM : Brewster GhiselinNARCISSUS AS NARCISSUS : Allen TateREMEMBERING HART CRANE : Malcolm CowleyPREFACE TO THE SPOILS OF POYNTON : Henry JamesWORKING-TOOLS : Rudyard KiplingA CONVERSATION WITH GERTRUDE STEIN : John Hyde PrestonHOW FLINT AND FIRE STARTED AND GREW : Dorothy CanfieldLETTER TO WARNER TAYLOR : Uewelyn PowysREFLECTIONS ON WRITING : Henry MillerTHE STORY OF A NOVEL : Thomas WolfeNOTES ON WRITING : Katherine Anne PorterCOMPOSITION OF THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA : Friedrich NietzscheSUBCONSCIOUS INTELLIGENCE UNDERLYING DREAMS : Morton PrincePSYCHOLOGY AND LITERATURE : Carl Gustav JungCONVERSATION WITH GEORGE ELIOT : Herbert SpencerTHE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF IMAGINATION : R. W. Gerard