Creators: from Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney

The anatomy of creative courage

Chaucer : the man in the fourteenth-century street

Dürer : a strong smell of printer's ink

Shakespeare : glimpses of an unknown colossus

J. S. Bach : the genetics of the organ loft

Turner and Hokusai : apocalypse now and then

Jane Austen : shall we join the ladies?

A. W. N. Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc : Goths for all seasons

Victor Hugo : the genius without a brain

Mark Twain : how to tell a joke

Tiffany : through a glass darkly

T. S. Eliot : the last poet to wear spats

Balenciaga and Dior : the aesthetics of a buttonhole

Picasso and Walt Disney : room for nature in a modern world?

Metaphors in a laboratory.