SOURCE: "The Possibilities of Creativity: Nicholas Berdyaev and Robert Bly," in The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. XXIX, No. 3, Spring, 1988, pp. 321-32.

In the following essay, Randolph examines the spiritual significance that Berdyaev attached to human creativity, using the work of American poet Robert Bly to exemplify Berdyaev's criteria for genuine creativity in works of art.

In D. H. Lawrence: Novelist, F. R. Leavis writes of Lawrence:

It is plain from the letters and other sources that he went forward rapidly once he had started on an enterprise, writing long stretches in remarkably little time as the creative flow carried him on. The first draft written, he revised, not by correcting locally or reworking parts, but by rewriting the whole with the same kind of creative elan as had gone into the earlier version (and this he habitually did yet again).

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