 The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...  The American Whig Review - Page 1591848Full view - About this book
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 252 pages
...(Biographia Literaria chapter 14) Coleridge himself glosses that magical Romantic word, Imagination, as "a repetition in the finite [mind] of the eternal act of creation of the infinite i AM" (Biographia Literaria chapter 13). Note the progression of Coleridge's thinking.... | |
 | Simon Blaxland-de Lange - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 376 pages
...Coleridge calls] "separative projection", which in human beings is imagination. This we can only do by "a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation". Thus, the further step from primary to secondary imagination is, to say the least of it, not less important... | |
 | Lee Oser - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 206 pages
...helpful to have at hand the critical passage from Coleridge, from chapter 13 of the Biographia Literaria: 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, coexisting with the conscious will, 8. Aristotle,... | |
 | Robert Butterworth - Religion - 2007 - 228 pages
...it, and to distinguish it sharply from the uncreative 'fancy' (ibid. ch. XIII): The imagination ... I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious will, yet still as... | |
 | Patrick Harpur - Alchemy - 2007 - 524 pages
...the order of time and space'. Authentic imagination on the other hand is of two kinds — primary and secondary. The primary imagination I hold to be the...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination he considers to be an 'echo' of the primary, 'co-existing with the conscious... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 1086 pages
...Cartesianism along new lines (with a few mild ten page 18 Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ch. XIII: 'The imagination then I consider either as primary,...perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the external act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Literary Collections - 2004 - 1160 pages
...Reason [the faculty] of contemplation.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria ' 18171, ch. 13: The primary imagination I hold to be the living power...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will,... | |
 | Viorica Pâtea, Paul Scott Derrick - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 255 pages
...Some form of Platonism seems called for to explain how form can appear and be recognized as such. 7 "The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions,... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 1086 pages
...Cartesianism along new lines (with a few mild ten page 18 Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ch. XIII: "The imagination then I consider either as primary,...of all human perception, and as a repetition in the fntite mind of the external act of creation in the infmite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Literary Collections - 2004 - 1160 pages
...contemplation.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817), eh. 13: 'The primary imagination 1 hold to be the living power and prime Agent of all...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will,... | |
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