...to its principle and fountain, who is alone truly one" (Essays and Lect., p. 39). "The imagination I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary...finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite l am. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will,...

...what he calls the primary imagination, which is itself an analogue of creation, and its activity ' a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM'.* In other writers of this period, in Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley and Hazlitt, we find an almost...

...John's "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." "The primary imagination," asserted Coleridge, "is a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite / am." l Here, evidently, unless the "God-intoxicated" Coleridge is talking nonsense, we are...

...express which precisely he had to invent a new term, esemplastic. Coleridge held the primary imagination to be " the living power and prime agent of all human...of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM " (BL 1. 202). Sarah Coleridge staled (BL 1847 Edn, 1.297) that in his copy of the book her father...

...power to create.80 He was familiar with Coleridge's assumption that the imagination in man was "the repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the nlbid., p. 18. ™Poe may have encountered this idea of mutuality of adaptation in Kant's Criticism...

...the universe, though he may not express it in terms of the universe. His is the esemplastic power, " the living power and prime agent of all human perception,...eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." The ultimate office of the artist is by an apt symbol to bring the eternal and infinite into the limits...

...his own brain both the verse and matter of his poem." * The poet's work, according to Coleridge, is " a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am." 2 If this is to be taken literally then there is actual relation between poetical and divine creation,...

...his own brain both the verse and matter of his poem." l The poet's work, according to Coleridge, is "a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite / am." * If this is to be taken literally then there is actual relation between poetical and...

...what he calls the primary imagination, which is itself an analogue of creation, and its activity ' a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM'.2 In other writers of this period, in Wordsworth and Keats 1 Histoire du Romantisme, p. 65. and...

...what he calls the primary imagination, which is itself an analogue of creation, and its activity " a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." 2 In other writers of this period, in Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley and Hazlitt, we find an almost...