Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as "a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind." In this instructive and witty book Johnson offers a companion volume of essays that examines a outstanding and prolific creative spiritsDisney, Picasso, Bach, Shakespeare, Austen, Twain, T.S. Eliot, Dürer, Hokusai, Tiffany, and otherspositing that creation cannot be satisfactorily analyzed but instead can be illustrated to bring out its salient characteristics.