 | J. Douglas Kneale - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 250 pages
...intertextual thread running through this passage: Coleridge's previous sentence states that the poet "diffuses a tone, and spirit of unity, that blends,...each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination" (Coleridge's emphasis). I am alerted by the... | |
 | Vennelaṇṭi Prakāśam - Culture - 1999 - 186 pages
...affected more than men by absent things as if they were present," has brought the "whole soul" of his into activity, "with the subordination of its faculties...other according to their relative worth and dignity." The result has been quite rewarding for the poet. These poems are an "overflow of powerful feelings"... | |
 | Seamus Perry - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 330 pages
...'each Thing has a Life of it's [sic] own, & yet they are all one Life' [Lerters, II:866): the poet -diffuses a tone, and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each' (Biographia, II:16). It is only where the processes of the diffused imagination are 'rendered impossible'... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 346 pages
...must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association. . . . . . . The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man...each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power, first put in action by the will... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - American literature - 2000 - 340 pages
...must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association. . . . . . . The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man...each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power, first put in action by the will... | |
 | Martin J. Gannon - Business & Economics - 2001 - 276 pages
...conclusion than the following excerpt from Coleridge. In his Bioffraphia Ltteraria he writes: The poet . . . brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the...their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone, a spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) ruses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical... | |
 | András Horn - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - 2000 - 126 pages
...gleichen geistigen Inhalt zu vermitteln und dadurch künstlerische Einheit zu stiften: „He [the poet] diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends and...each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power [...] reveals itself in the balance... | |
 | Michael Eskin - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 318 pages
...synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination [,] brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other [and] diffuses a spirit of unity' (ibid.), Mandel'shtam's synthetic poet has nothing 'magical' about... | |
 | Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...Literaria äußert sich Coleridge in einer für Emerson entscheidenden Passage: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man...each into each, by that synthetic and magical power of which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power [...] reveals istself... | |
 | Alan Richardson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 270 pages
...mature writings, perhaps most famously in his description of poetic creation. "The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man...and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) Juses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated... | |
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were)... 
