...power to create.80 He was familiar with Coleridge's assumption that the imagination in man was "the repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the nlbid., p. 18. ™Poe may have encountered this idea of mutuality of adaptation in Kant's Criticism...

...the universe, though he may not express it in terms of the universe. His is the esemplastic power, " the living power and prime agent of all human perception,...eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." The ultimate office of the artist is by an apt symbol to bring the eternal and infinite into the limits...

...his own brain both the verse and matter of his poem." * The poet's work, according to Coleridge, is " a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am." 2 If this is to be taken literally then there is actual relation between poetical and divine creation,...

...his own brain both the verse and matter of his poem." l The poet's work, according to Coleridge, is "a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite / am." * If this is to be taken literally then there is actual relation between poetical and...

...what he calls the primary imagination, which is itself an analogue of creation, and its activity ' a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM'.2 In other writers of this period, in Wordsworth and Keats 1 Histoire du Romantisme, p. 65. and...

...Hell, And men not measure from what height I fell. — Stephen Phillips / From "Blographia Litcrarla." 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, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as...

...what he calls the primary imagination, which is itself an analogue of creation, and its activity " a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." 2 In other writers of this period, in Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley and Hazlitt, we find an almost...

...what he calls the primary imagination, which is itself an analogue of creation, and its activity " a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." 2 In other writers of this period, in Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley and Hazlitt, we find an almost...

...between the productive and the non-productive Imagination. " The primary Imagination," says Coleridge, " I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all...The secondary I consider as an echo of the former. ... It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible,...

...life. It discovers and gives body to the Ideas or archetypal forms of Nature and Human Life in Society. "Primary Imagination I hold to be the living power...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am." 8 Coleridge is the intellectual father, along with Frederick Denison Maurice, of the Broad Church School...