| Author/Contributor(s): | Perkins, D N |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Date: | 01/01/1981 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Over the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote Kubla Khan in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared that his Raven was worked out with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.
D. N. Perkins discusses the creative episodes of Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, and others in this exploration of the creative process in the arts, sciences, and everyday life.