...constructed in the mind, but as such it is the product of an idealism rather than of mere subjectivity, being 'a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM' — or rather, the echo of this which occurs in the Secondary or aesthetic imagination. The theme of...

...I am engaged with cosmic imagination: "The living power and prime agent of all human perception and a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM" (Coleridge). Moreover, my perceiving is not only imaging, it is at the same time a felt mutual resonance...

...the divine spark of creative power which is the life force itself - or, as Coleridge describes it, 'a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite / am.'* Primary imagination is unconscious, a universal given of human existence. Secondary...

...(Biographia Literaria chapter 14) Coleridge himself glosses that magical Romantic word, Imagination, as "a repetition in the finite [mind] of the eternal act of creation of the infinite i AM" (Biographia Literaria chapter 13). Note the progression of Coleridge's thinking....

...Coleridge calls] "separative projection", which in human beings is imagination. This we can only do by "a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation". Thus, the further step from primary to secondary imagination is, to say the least of it, not less important...

...helpful to have at hand the critical passage from Coleridge, from chapter 13 of the Biographia Literaria: The Imagination then I consider either as primary,...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious will, 8. Aristotle, The Basic Works...

...it, and to distinguish it sharply from the uncreative 'fancy' (ibid. ch. XIII): The imagination ... I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious will, yet still as identical with...

...the order of time and space'. Authentic imagination on the other hand is of two kinds — primary and secondary. The primary imagination I hold to be the...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 identical...

...Cartesianism along new lines (with a few mild ten page 18 Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ch. XIII: 'The imagination then I consider either as primary,...perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the external act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing...

...Some form of Platonism seems called for to explain how form can appear and be recognized as such. 7 "The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions,...