....... This power [ie the imagination] ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposites or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference;...the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual...

...metaphor which "diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends and (as it were) fuses, each to each . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...discordant qualities: of sameness with difference. . . ,"122 It is always "familiar yet an aberration," until the aberration is absorbed within the expanding...

...control (*laxis effertur habenis* [it is carried onward with loose reins; Virgil, Georgics 11.364]) reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement;...

...retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, controul [sic] (laxis effertar habenis) reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement;...

...and retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, controul (laxix effertur habenis) reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects [...]. Sitwell puts it similarly in A Poet's Notebook, when she writes, "[t]he Poet accomplishes his...

...and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects.4 In this, we see that specifically Romantic predicament from which Richards takes his extremely...

...and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination" as revealing "itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite...the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image."20 This process of reconciliation is carried out through a focus on similarity, or metaphor....

...and understanding, and retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, control . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference, of general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual with the representative."7 The...

...by the famous pairs that constitute all poems and that become objectified elements in the poem — "sameness with difference; of the general, with the...usual state of emotion, with more than usual order" (Biographia, 2:12). These poles differentiate a poem, define it, and balance it, as it were, in a fixed...