The demon and the angel : searching for the source of artistic inspiration

Hirsch, Edward (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0151005389
Physical Description: xiii, 321 p. ; 21 cm.
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Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-302) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- Only mystery -- Invoking the duende -- Poetic fact -- Mysterious power -- Hidden spirit of disconsolate Spain -- Apprenticeship -- Between Eros and Thanatos -- Majesty of the incomprehensible -- Spectacular meteor -- Swooping in -- Ardent struggle, endless vigil -- Black paintings -- Intermediary -- Yeats's daimon -- Ars poetica? -- Passionate ingredient -- Yearning cry of a shade -- I sing you, wild chasm -- Night work -- Vegetable life, airy spirit -- Person must control his thoughts in a dream -- Angelic world -- Story of Jacob's wrestling with an angel -- Concerning the angels -- Rilkean angel -- Angel, still groping -- New angel -- Three American angels -- Demon or bird! -- Between two contending forces -- Sublime is now -- In the painting -- Paint it black -- Motherwell's black -- Deaths and entrances -- Ancient music and fresh forms -- America heard in rhythm -- Hey, I'm American, so I played it -- Fending off the duende -- Existentialist flatfoot floogie -- Poet in New York -- Where is the angel? Where is the duende?