...[4] Cf. Coleridge, ch.14, Biographia Literaria: 'What is poetry? is nearly the same question with, what is a poet? that the answer to the one is involved...images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind.' From Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge (random House, 1951), ed. D. Stauffer. questions — all...

...form of his passion. He argued that the question 'What is Poetry? Is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? That the answer to the one is involved...images, thoughts and emotions of the poet's own mind' (173). While the imagination had tended to be seen as a faculty which the poet could employ for his...

...question with "what is a poet?" ', declares Coleridge in chapter 14 of his Biographia Literaria (1817), 'that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.' Coleridge goes on to define the poet 'in ideal perfection' in terms of his ability to unify, balance,...

...that promise by looking at a passage everywhere taken as exemplary of a Romantic idea of authority: and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind. A poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...

...("Preface to Lyrical Ballads," 1: 138) Coleridge: "What is poetry? is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other. . . . The poet described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the...

...the human spirit."29 Coleridge suggested, in a passage that followed his definition of poetry, that "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity He diffuses a tone, and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that...