This post is a lightening round of notes on STC designed to function as a little aide-memoire on some of the important terms associated with him.
Coleridge (1772-1834) is the Romantic poet-philosopher most concerned with defining imagination, its consequences, and its ability to reform the mind.
STC’s definitions of the imagination reform prior notions of imagination; we can therefore read “Kubla Khan” as both a description and enactment of imagination, and see his idea of reform through imagination at work.
Imagination/Fancy (689)
Phantazein: to present to the mind
Primary imagination: faculty of creative perception
Secondary imagination: with addition of will, faculty of conscious creation
It is vital, even as all objects (as objects) are fixed and dead.
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