...Some form of Platonism seems called for to explain how form can appear and be recognized as such. 7 "The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions,...

...contemplation.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817), eh. 13: 'The primary imagination 1 hold to be the living power and prime Agent of all...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as...

...Cartesianism along new lines (with a few mild ten page 18 Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ch. XIII: "The imagination then I consider either as primary,...of all human perception, and as a repetition in the fntite mind of the external act of creation in the infmite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo...

...of imagination. The primary level is the "living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, ... a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." The secondary imagination then "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates," but only "in order to re-create; or where this...

...great Romantic poets - Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley and above all Coleridge, who famously proclaimed: The Primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and is a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM . . .2 The only...

...Coleridge, the "Primary Imagination" is "the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." As the subject repeats the act of creation in thought, this act is not imitation but a reproduction...

...also Samuel Taylor Coleridge's definition of the primary imagination in his Biographia Literaria: the "repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM" (167). 20. This line must be read in conjunction with Dante Gabriel Rossetti's definition of the sonnet...

...second uses the images derived from the first to create new worlds. The agent of this imagination is a "finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM" (WI, 157). Both of these models of the imagination — the mimetic and the productive — have been...

...Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California, 1976: 209. 48 Gabriel Daly OSA and Andrew Pierce the primary imagination I hold to be the living power...mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.17 Not without reason has it been said of Coleridge that he believed that 'the longing for the eternal...

...union of subject and object is accomplished by what Coleridge calls Imagination, which he defines as "the living power and prime Agent of all human perception,...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." Coleridge's aim in addressing these terms was to give them a philosophical definition within the realm...