...Platonist and a Shakespearean critic, wrote these definitions of the imagination of God and man, and fancy: The IMAGINATION then I consider either as primary...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as...

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

...figure we can name the "romantic Coleridge," author of these famous lines from the Biogmphia Literaria: The IMAGINATION then I consider either as primary,...as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creadon in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing...

...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...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination ... dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this...

...almost daily contact with Coleridge. In Biographia Literaria Coleridge defines primary imagination 'to be the living power and prime agent of all human...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am'. 75 Clearly, such theories of the imagination are echoed repeatedly in Wordsworth's mystical verse....

...Gospel. The great definition of the Primary Imagination in Chapter 13 of the Biographia Literaria (1817) as a 'repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM' refers back not only to the great theophany of the Burning Bush and the divine words in Exodus 3:14,...

...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...

...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...

...imagination. His concept of the imagination as 'the living Power and prime Agent of all human perception ... a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM' (1997a: 175) is an attempt to yoke the human and the divine, so that higher ideas are not so much represented...

...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...