Contents -- Documentation and Experimentation -- Improvisation - Rite and Myth -- Coleridge and His Dream Poem -- E. A. Poe and the Aesthetics of Work -- Paul Valéry and Le Cimetière marin -- The Writing of Ibsen's Brand -- Gösta Berlings saga and Its Transformations -- Periodicity and the Stages of Literary Creativity -- Inspiration Disputed -- Concluding Unscientific Postscript -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.