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Title

The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration

Publisher

Harcourt Brace & Company, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

Publication Date

2002

Language

English

ISBN 10

0151005389

ISBN 13

9780151005383

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

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Synopsis

In a groundbreaking exploration of the sources and mysteries of artistic creativity, the author of How to Read a Poem examines the concept of "duende," the potent power of creativity that results in a work of art, as he looks art how different artists--including Paul Klee, T. S. Eliot, Herman Melville, William Blake, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sylvia Plath--respond to the creative impulse. 25,000 first printing.

About the Authors

Edward Hirsch is the author of five books of poetry, as well as the acclaimed How to Read a Poem. A frequent contributor to leading magazines and periodicals, including the New Yorker, DoubleTake, and American Poetry Review, he has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at the University of Houston.

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