...repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious...dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create ... It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.19 To...

...the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination ... dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 — Biographia Literaria, 1817 The mind can make Substance,...

...description of the imagination, particularly that of the imagination of genius — a creative force that "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create;...still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify."6 Coleridge felt that Shakespeare possessed such imagination to the highest degree. He might...

...actually visible to the eye, certainly fits Coleridge's definition of the secondary imagination, which "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create;...still, at all events, it struggles to idealize and to unify."35 The real "problem" with the description of Golgonooza is not that it lacks grist for the...

...formula," may be doubted/ 3 Not primary, the friend's letter offers "an echo of the former," differing "in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create," or "at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify" (BL 1:304). The friend struggles to comprehend...

...repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious...all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital . . . Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities...

...creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination he considers to be an 'echo' of the primary, 'co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as...still, at all events, it struggles to idealize and unify.' In Smith's terms the primary imagination would seem to be the prerogative of Spirit, and the...

...the conscious will, 8. Aristotle, The Basic Works of Aristotle, 1461 (Poetics I450a); JRR Tolkien, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind...all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead. Fancy, on...

...finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious...differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation . . . Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites. The fancy...

...Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria (1817) describes the imagination as a power that "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...all events it struggles to idealize and to unify." The contrasting power to the imagination is, for Coleridge, the fancy, which "receive[s] all its materials...