My business is to create : Blake's infinite writing /
Wilson, Eric, 1967-
My business is to create : Blake's infinite writing / Eric G. Wilson. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, - 102 pages ; 23 cm. - Muse books : the Iowa series in creativity & writing . - Muse books. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This book examines William Blake's theory of creativity as well as the practices it implies. In both his life and his art, Blake provided an example of creativity at any cost- in the face of misunderstanding, neglect, loneliness, poverty, even accusations of insanity. Generations of writers and artists as diverse as John Ruskin, William Butler Yeats, Allen Ginsberg, Philip K. Dick, songwriter Patti Smith, the avant-garde filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, and the underground comic-book artist R. Crumb have taken Blake's creed as inspiration. Unwilling to cede his vision, Blake did more than simply produce iconoclastic poems and paintings; he also cleared a path toward spiritual and ethical enlightenment.
9781587299902 1587299909 9781587299919 1587299917
2010046505
GBB1E1219 bnb
Blake, William, 1757-1827 --Criticism and interpretation.
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Blake, William.
Authorship--Philosophy.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Authorship--Philosophy.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literaturproduktion.
Kunstproduktion.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR4148.A9 / W56 2011
821/.7
My business is to create : Blake's infinite writing / Eric G. Wilson. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, - 102 pages ; 23 cm. - Muse books : the Iowa series in creativity & writing . - Muse books. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This book examines William Blake's theory of creativity as well as the practices it implies. In both his life and his art, Blake provided an example of creativity at any cost- in the face of misunderstanding, neglect, loneliness, poverty, even accusations of insanity. Generations of writers and artists as diverse as John Ruskin, William Butler Yeats, Allen Ginsberg, Philip K. Dick, songwriter Patti Smith, the avant-garde filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, and the underground comic-book artist R. Crumb have taken Blake's creed as inspiration. Unwilling to cede his vision, Blake did more than simply produce iconoclastic poems and paintings; he also cleared a path toward spiritual and ethical enlightenment.
9781587299902 1587299909 9781587299919 1587299917
2010046505
GBB1E1219 bnb
Blake, William, 1757-1827 --Criticism and interpretation.
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Blake, William.
Authorship--Philosophy.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Authorship--Philosophy.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literaturproduktion.
Kunstproduktion.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR4148.A9 / W56 2011
821/.7