...close to identifying the Weimar program with the traditional topos of the poet's office in general — "he diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends and (as it were)/kr«each to each," as Coleridge has it — 22 the German debate since the late sixties has been...

...images, thoughts and emotions of the poet's own mind. 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, first put in action...

...brings the diffuse parts of the soul into unity through the power of the imagination: He. . . brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...fuses each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.6 As Prospero, with the help...

...images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind. A poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...tone, and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were)/ttses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated...

...Coleridge describes the condition of being a poet: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends and fuses . . . each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated...

...transforming it into one harmonious, beautiful entity. "The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...each other, according to their relative worth and dignity."38 In true Platonic fashion, Coleridge argued it is illuminating to evaluate all particular...

...images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind. 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. (BL, 2:15- 16) What this...

...of poetry, that "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity 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."30 Coleridge saw his theory...

...one is involved in the solution of the other. . . . 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" (2: 15-16). Wordsworth's account of the poet, which I reproduce only in part, quickly renders the "natural"...

...whole of them" (quoted in Gardner 1978, 14). In the Biographia Literaria Coleridge claims that the poet "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 . . . [Imagination] forms...