...the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination ... dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 — Biographia Literaria, 1817 The mind can make Substance,...

...description of the imagination, particularly that of the imagination of genius — a creative force that "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create;...still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify."6 Coleridge felt that Shakespeare possessed such imagination to the highest degree. He might...

...actually visible to the eye, certainly fits Coleridge's definition of the secondary imagination, which "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create;...still, at all events, it struggles to idealize and to unify."35 The real "problem" with the description of Golgonooza is not that it lacks grist for the...

...formula," may be doubted/ 3 Not primary, the friend's letter offers "an echo of the former," differing "in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create," or "at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify" (BL 1:304). The friend struggles to comprehend...

...Aristotle, The Basic Works of Aristotle, 1461 (Poetics I450a); JRR Tolkien, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only...to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead. Fancy, on the other hand, has no other...

...consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only...to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital . . . Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites. The fancy...

...be an 'echo' of the primary, 'co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only...still, at all events, it struggles to idealize and unify.' In Smith's terms the primary imagination would seem to be the prerogative of Spirit, and the...

...Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria (1817) describes the imagination as a power that "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...all events it struggles to idealize and to unify." The contrasting power to the imagination is, for Coleridge, the fancy, which "receive[s] all its materials...

...Imagination," an "echo" of the primary, develops the transformative implications of consciousness. "It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead."18...

...the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates,...process is rendered impossible, yet still, at all event, it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects)...