...to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead. Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play...it is blended with and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will which we express by the word "choice." But equally with the ordinary memory...

...to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead. Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites." 1 So for Wordsworth, imagination is a word " denoting operations of the mind upon . . . objects." 2...

..." to the time of the pub" Ibid., pp. 533-35. " Biographia Literaria, pp. 177-78. "Ibid., p. 178. " Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definitives. The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of Memory emancipated from the order of time...

...of Fancy as a faculty I have no desire to improve on the definition given by Coleridge : Fancy . . . has no other counters to play with, but fixities and...it is blended with, and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will, which we express by the word Choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the...

...definition given by Coleridge : Fancy . . . has no other counters to play with, but fixities and dehnites. The fancy is, indeed, no other than a mode of memory...it is blended with, and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will, which we express by the word Choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the...

...and "unifying," the imagination answers to something in reality itself. Fancy, on the other hand, "is no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space . . . modified by [arbitrary] choice."7 In light of all this, my fondness for Plato (particularly the...

...atomizes and reforms experience in a mysterious alchemy of dissolution, diffusion, and dissipation, while FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and defmites. The Fancy is indeed no other than a mode of Memory emancipated from the order of time and...

...mistook daydream for inspiration, 'psychic automatism' for art, or, in Coleridge's terms, 'Fancy [which] is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space' for genuine 'Imagination [which] dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create. ' The distinctions...

...Clarendon Press, 1965), 558 (No. 416). 10. Addison, 559 (No. 416). 11. According to Coleridge, "FANCY . . . has no other counters to play with, but fixities and...Memory emancipated from the order of time and space" (Biographia Literaria, ed. James Engell and Walter Jackson Bate, vol. 7 [2 books] of The Collected...

...though Coleridge concludes that all its "objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead." But fancy on the contrary "has no other counters to play...memory emancipated from the order of time and space." Thus liberated it becomes manipulative in its play, irreverently disposed to reality. (I have considered...