Fine review, which I have only just gotten around to reading. After another thread elsewhere, I have picked up Jonah Lehrer's Imagine, which I am reading with interest. What you say about "ordinary geniuses" vs. "magicians" reminds me of his comment on Dionysian 'divergent' thinking vs. Apollonian 'convergent thinking'--the first a more right-brained, epiphanic approach, the second reliant on analysis and attention. You and I can probably imagine ourselves writing poetry that uses the second kind of thinking more easily than the first.
One small comment: Surely the title of "The Idle" is a pun?
I'm off to read Nevertheless.
Chris
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