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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461656803321

Autore

Wilson Eric <1967->

Titolo

My business is to create [[electronic resource] ] : Blake's infinite writing / / Eric G. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011

ISBN

1-58729-991-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 p.)

Collana

Muse books: the Iowa series in creativity and writing

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Authorship - Philosophy

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Be an artist -- Contraries -- The ratio -- Minute particulars -- Looking -- Copy a great deal -- The infernal method -- Poetry unfetter'd -- Revising -- Innocence -- Play -- Experience -- Generation -- The fly -- Spiritual warfare -- Work -- Eternity -- Dictation -- The fourfold -- Infinite writing.

Sommario/riassunto

For William Blake, living is creating, conforming is death, and "the imagination . . . is the Human Existence itself." But why are imagination and creation-so vital for Blake-essential for becoming human? And what is imagination? What is creation? How do we create? Blake had answers for these questions, both in word and in deed, answers that serve as potent teachings for aspiring writers and accomplished ones alike. Eric G. Wilson's My Business Is to Create emulates Blake, presenting the great figure's theory of creativity as well as the practices it implie