The Gift

The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World (Canons)

 Lewis Hyde (author)

The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.

Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. In addition to The Gift, he is the author of Trickster Makes This World; Common as Air; A Primer for Forgetting; and a book of poems, This Error is the Sign of Love. He has also published two volumes of translations of Nobel laureate Vicente Aleixandre's poetry and is the editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau. A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University, Hyde was the Richard L. Thomas Professor in Creative Writing at Kenyon College until his retirement in 2018. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, the writer Patricia Vigderman.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Canongate Canons; Main - Canons Imprint Re-issue edition (6 Dec. 2012)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780857868473
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm