How do writers work? The differing habits of seven great authors
are examined in this collection. Writers often meditate on what
physical situations they need to do the work in hand. A room of
their own, bills, bed, procrastination, regular meals, Benzedrine
and beer, office routines, walking and riding, even prison, can be
machines that make them write. Trollope got 2,000 words done every
morning, watch on the table. Clare composed en pleine air, jotting
on his hat rim. Wesley's hymns came to him on horseback. The Bronte
sisters paced round adrawing-room table. Donne was dismally
prompted to write by nappies. Johnson needed the printer's devil
knocking at his door. On a grand scale, city planners try to entice
the creative classes into a creative area: while at alocal level,
readers have a magical sense that putting themselves into the
bodily position of a writer may allow them to join in her planning
and plotting. The essays in this volume examine the working habits
of seven greatauthors, from 1600 to today: Jonson, Milton, the
Bronte sisters, Trollope, Oliphant, and Auden. There are also
interviews on the creative environment with the Poet Laureate of
Great Britain, the British Library's Head of Modern Literary
Manuscripts, the Director of the Hay Festival, research fellows at
Stratford and the Globe, and a poet-web-blogger. CONTRIBUTORS: STAN
SMITH, ELISABETH JAY, N. JOHN HALL, STEVIE DAVIS, PETER C. HERMAN,
FARAH KARIM-COOPER, KATE RUMBOLD, MICHELLE O'CALLAGHAN, ADAM SMYTH,
ANDREW MOTION, JAMIE ANDREWS, ROBERT SHEPPARD, PETER FLORENCE
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