The strength to dream
Colin Wilson

Literature and the imagination.

What is the imagination and how does it work? Looking critically at the images of the world portrayed in the works of such authors as H.P. Lovecraft, August Strindberg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, H.G. Wells, Tolkien, D.H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley, Colin Wilson caries out a fascinating search for a definition of the creative imagination and its influence on literature.