...imagination', which leads to the Coleridgean 'primary imagination' where sensibility, human perception, is 'a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM'. Shaftesbury's 'sensibility' was a little more modest than that, but it had an all-important moral side....

...was elevated onto a pedestal: it was the supreme gift of the poet, the creative power of the artist, "a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM"14— in short, a reflection in man of the divine and life giving spirit of God the Creator. Fantasy,...

...imagination and fancy, asserted in Biographia Literaria. For Coleridge, the primary imagination is the "living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as 5. For Foe's ideas on "Combination" and "Novelty," see "Thomas Hood," in Essays and Reviews, 278; for...

...Taylor Coleridge's definition of the 'primary imagination' as 'the repetition in the finite [human] mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM' (Biographia Literaria, Ch. 13) and Charles Baudelaire's celebration of the poetic imagination as 'the...

...that god in his famous definition in Biographia Literaria of the primary imagination (as a repetition of "the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.") The human representation inspires a deepening self-consciousness in the viewer, which in turn deepens his...

...that great theorist of the Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, declaring the imagination to be 'a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation'. What had happened is that religion (and indeed society in general) had lost its trust in the power...

...'imagination', of the mind as made in 'God's Image', the 'Image of the Creator': The IMAGINATION then I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary...The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency,...

...critic, wrote these definitions of the imagination of God and man, and fancy: The IMAGINATION then I consider either as primary or secondary. The primary...The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency,...

...Gerard and Edward Young in order to synthesize them in his own inimitable way: The imagination then I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious will, yet still as identical...

...now proved was once, only imagin'd. -William Blake, 1757-1827The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1793 The primary imagination I hold to be the living power...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination ... dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered...