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The Mind's Best Work

Perkins, D.N.·2009·Harvard University Press eBooks
DOI 10.2307/j.ctvjnrvqd
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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.

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Authors
Perkins, D. N.
Venue
Harvard University Press eBooks
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
2009-06-30
DOI
10.2307/j.ctvjnrvqd
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W2030589372
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book
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en
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