...was elevated onto a pedestal: it was the supreme gift of the poet, the creative power of the artist, "a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM"14— in short, a reflection in man of the divine and life giving spirit of God the Creator. Fantasy,...

...that god in his famous definition in Biographia Literaria of the primary imagination (as a repetition of "the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.") The human representation inspires a deepening self-consciousness in the viewer, which in turn deepens his...

...Taylor Coleridge's definition of the 'primary imagination' as 'the repetition in the finite [human] mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM' (Biographia Literaria, Ch. 13) and Charles Baudelaire's celebration of the poetic imagination as 'the...

...imagination and fancy, asserted in Biographia Literaria. For Coleridge, the primary imagination is the "living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as 5. For Foe's ideas on "Combination" and "Novelty," see "Thomas Hood," in Essays and Reviews, 278; for...

...that great theorist of the Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, declaring the imagination to be 'a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation'. What had happened is that religion (and indeed society in general) had lost its trust in the power...

...aesthetics such as Alexander Gerard and Edward Young in order to synthesize them in his own inimitable way: The imagination then I consider either as primary,...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious will, yet still as identical...

...now proved was once, only imagin'd. -William Blake, 1757-1827The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1793 The primary imagination I hold to be the living power...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination ... dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered...

...figure we can name the "romantic Coleridge," author of these famous lines from the Biogmphia Literaria: The IMAGINATION then I consider either as primary,...as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creadon in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing...

...almost daily contact with Coleridge. In Biographia Literaria Coleridge defines primary imagination 'to be the living power and prime agent of all human...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am'. 75 Clearly, such theories of the imagination are echoed repeatedly in Wordsworth's mystical verse....

...Gospel. The great definition of the Primary Imagination in Chapter 13 of the Biographia Literaria (1817) as a 'repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM' refers back not only to the great theophany of the Burning Bush and the divine words in Exodus 3:14,...