Mind's Best Work

<p>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. <p/>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.</p>