CREATIVE INTUITION IN ART AND POETRY

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1977, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-691-01817-0.  Large trade soft cover, 423 pages including Index.  Very good; some edge and spine end wear with slight curl to front wrap, light cover wear, a bit of chipping along spine edges; binding sound with faint reading creases.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white illustrations.  The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1952; Bollingen Series XXXV-1.  ‘Art and poetry cannot do without one another.  Yet the two words are far from being synonymous.  By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind.  By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary:  that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination.  …  Art and Poetry – one of the main purposes of this book is to try to make clear both the distinction and the indissoluble relationship between these two strange companions.’ (from ‘Preliminary Remarks’)