The Mind's Best Work

摘要: Over the years, tales about creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote "Kubla Khan" in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared his "Raven" was worked out "with precision rigid consequence a mathematical problem." D. N. Perkins discusses episodes Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, others this exploration arts, sciences, everyday life.