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On Poetic Imagination and Reverie

Bachelard's genius has produced the single most important body of thought in the rehabilitation of imagination in this century. His books on the psychoanalysis of fire and poetics of air, water, earth, and space are excerpted here.

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With an authoritative and comprehensive preface and bibliography by and about Bachelard.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 160 pages

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