...poet who "described ;n ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity. . . ." His is "a more than usual state of emotion, with more than...self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement V As so often, Coleridge drops the invaluable hint almost inadvertently. The wholeness of the mind...

...according to their relative worth and dignity . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness,...more than usual state of emotion with more than usual orderj judgment ever awake and steady self-possession with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement;...

...gentle and unnoticed, control, laxis effertur habenis, reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities : of sameness,...more than usual state of emotion with more than usual 20 order ; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession with enthusiasm and feeling profound or...

...this power of Imagination reveals itself, among other ways, in the balance and reconciliation of ' a more than usual state of emotion with more than...self-possession with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement '. The predominance which is given on the one hand to order or judgment and on the other hand to emotion...

...retained under their remissive, though gentle and unnoticed, controul [sic] Qaxts effenur habenis) reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than unusual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady selfpossession,...

...denying or annihilating differences, it brings them into significant relation.46 Imaginative power reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement;...

...appropriate the name of Imagination. This power ... reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness with...familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion with a more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession with enthusiasm profound or...

...Taylor Coleridge on this topic: (295) [According to Coleridge, the creative process is a reconciliation} of sameness with difference; of the general with the...usual state of emotion with more than usual order. Another summation of such reconciliations was offered by JWR Purser, whom we quoted earlier on the...

...Imagination given hy Coleridge: — This power . . . reveals itself in the halance or reconcilement ot opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with...general, with the concrete; the idea with the image; rhe individual with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar ohjects;...

...is not one monotonously consistent thing but a complex of contradictory things with a power revealed "in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant...with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement." Readers baffled by a poem that seems both mechanically measured and rapturously emotional can relax:...