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The Creative Writing Life Lecture
Sept 12 2016
: What’s so creative about creative writing?
PB Shelley “I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed” “Poets are the unacknowledged
legislators of the world”
Poetry says what it says, not hidden messages
What is a Creative Writer?
William Carlos Wiliams – “…all writing is a disease…”
The idea that you need to be a tortured artist
September 19
The romantics and their wild winds
Inspiration
Romanticism – high romance, moving experience beyond…
The idea of the Muse
Romantics neoclassicism. You can write about your life.
The Sublime – experience of higher knowledge/connect with God
Edmund Burke.
Flower beautiful milky way sublime
Shelley Ode to the West Wind
Wordsworth. Romantic, real life, not epics, not heroes, real mundane fuckin shit
Keats
Negative Capability
The ability to not know, not having to write in certainties, not having to have the
answer
Pablo Neruda
Ode to the Onion
September 26 2016
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Fairy Tales, Myth, Auto-Biography
Subjectivity is the replacement word for “the self”.