...greatest single passages in modern literary criticism: "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 I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination. This power, first put in action...

...be full of life and love, must have a sense of the immenseness of the good and fair; he must "bring the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...other according to their relative worth and dignity" 10 — imagination, will, intellect, emotion; not only must he have fine perceptions of spiritual truth,...

...Samuel Taylor Coleridge From "Blographla Literaria." The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone of spirit and unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical...

...images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind. The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power, first put in...

...great poet he read also the nature of God. 'The poet,' he wrote, '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 I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination. This power, first put in action...

...more certain than mere feeling, or intuition, by 2 " The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...faculties to each other according; to their relative dignity and worth." itself. Keats was at this time in a state where his whole being demanded certainties;...

...more certain than mere feeling, or intuition, by 2 " The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...faculties to each other according to their relative dignity and worth." itself. Keats was at this time in a state where his whole being demanded certainties;...

...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...were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and 10 magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination. This power, first...

...Literaria, begins and ends with the concept of unity. "The poet," he writes in the penultimate paragraph, "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." There follows, then, a long...

...degree of imaginative, specifically synthetic, activity: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone, and a spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical...