The creative process : a symposium.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Brewster 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 -- 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 Valéry -- Three pieces on the creative process: The thinking of the body ; Preface to the King of the great clock tower ; Long-legged fly / 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 -- 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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