Publisher's Synopsis
This is one volume in a series of books on the conditions of creativity, where we explore individual lives through long filmed interviews, set within the context of some text and a summary of the interview. This volume deals with a set of distinguished liteary critics and historians George Steiner, Frank Kermode, Peter Avery, Gillian Beer, Toshi Takamiya, Christopher Ricks. All were interviewed in Cambridge between 2007 and 2013. All the interviews are available on the Internet. In the elecronic version it is possible to go directly to the interviews.