...synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities . . . the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects ; a more than usual state of...

...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...

...the 'opposite or discordant qualities' that are to be brought together in the miraculous poem: the qualities 'of sameness, with difference; of the general,...individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty 111 See Daniel M. Fogel, 'A Compnsirional History of the Biographia Uteraria\ Studies m Bibltography,...

...apparently unlike" ("Cowley," Lives 1:20) to Coleridge's equally memorable statement that the imagination "reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities" (Biographia Literaria chapter 14), and thence to the twentieth-century New Critics via TS Eliot's essays...

...and retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, controul (Iaxis effertur habenis) reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities" (2: 16). The tag "Iaxis effertur habenis," meaning "carried on with slackened reins" (2: i6n6), is...

...were) ruses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, . . . imagination. This power, . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual stare of emotion, with more than usual order . . . and while it blends and harmonizes the natural and...

...and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power [...] reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...the image; the individual, with the representative" (1992: 164). Origineller ist Coleridges Unterscheidung zwischen imagination und fancy, wobei letzterer...

...and understanding, and retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed controul . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...sameness, with difference; of the general, with the particular; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty...

...81. 4. For example, in the depiction of the imagination as "that synthetic and magical power [that] reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities" (Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, 2:16). 5. Another indication would be provided if it could be definitively...