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My business is to create : Blake's infinite writing / Eric G. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Eric, 1967-
- Series:
- Muse Books
- Muse books: the Iowa series in creativity and writing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authorship--Philosophy.
- Authorship.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Blake, William, 1757-1827--Criticism and interpretation.
- Blake, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (113 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587299919
- 1587299917
- OCLC:
- 731226524
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