The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were)... The American Whig Review - Page 1561848Full view - About this book
| Hans Werner Breunig - 2002 - 356 pages
...Leistungen, die die .secondary imagination' vollbringt, beschrieben: "He [the poet] diffuses a tone, and a spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination." 204 Die sekundäre Einbildungskraft... | |
| Astrid Diener - 2002 - 238 pages
...unity in their difference. In Coleridge's own words: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power [...] reveals... | |
| Lucy Newlyn - 2002 - 292 pages
...distinct gratification from each component part.' 'The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...other, according to their relative worth and dignity.' The poet diffuses a 'spirit of unity' by the power of imagination and balances or reconciles 'opposite... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 296 pages
...(in great literary works) becomes a central point: 'The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...other, according to their relative worth and dignity' (BL ii. 15-16); and see 497. Locke and Hume appear as prominent representatives of the native empiricist... | |
| Paul Bentley - 2002 - 188 pages
...larger sense of process or continuum, one which recalls Coleridge's characterization of the poet's "tone and spirit of unity that blends and (as it were)...fuses each into each by that synthetic and magical power to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of imagination."65 Objects in Raine tend to... | |
| Leonora Leet - 2003 - 388 pages
...definition of the imagination is still that given by Coleridge in his discussion of the ideal poet: He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends,...fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power, first put in... | |
| Stephen Gill - 2003 - 324 pages
...act of perception, but self-consciously manifest in poetry, where it reveals itself as the power that 'diffuses a tone, and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each' (BL ii 16). The overriding sense of unity is still the same, but now it is subjectively achieved, its... | |
| Roland Kroemer - 2004 - 598 pages
...preach a separate and all-sufficient agenda of beauty, Coleridge instead affirms that the poet "brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a ... spirit of unity that blends and . . . fuses, each into each, by that synthetic . . . power ...... | |
| Peter Sharpe - 2004 - 400 pages
..."amassing harmony" of its "difference." Or, as Coleridge had it, the imaginative power of 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 opposite or discordant qualities:... | |
| Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 pages
...definition of the imagination is still that given by Coleridge in his discussion of the ideal poet: He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were)/«*«, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the... | |
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