NAME: SOLANKI BINITA M.

ROLL NO: 05.

CLASS : M.A., SEM : 02

PAPRE NO : 05

SUBJECT : THE ROMANTIC LITERATURE.

TOPIC : IMAGINATION IN COLERIDGE.

YEAR :2013-2014.

SUBMITTE TO : HEENABA ZALA.

MAHARAJA KRISHNKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY.

Samuel Taylor

Coleridge

Fancy and imagination.

Theory of imagination.

Primary imagination.

Secondary imagination.

Coleridge divided imagination into two parts :

His poetic imagination

Primary imagination. Secondary imagination.

Imagination is the “SOUL that is everywhere, and each: and form into the one graceful and intelligent whole”.

Coleridge focus mainly an imagination as the key to poetry. He divided into two main components; primary and secondary imagination.

His most contribution to Literary Theory, literature and criticism in his ‘POETIC IMAGINATION’.

For Coleridge imagination was responsible for acts that were truly inventive and creative.

Imagination describe the mysterious power which extracted from such data , hidden ideas and meaning.

Coleridge also add Fancy in his description on the imagination.According to his philosophy, Fancy is even lower than the secondary imagination, which is already of the earthly realm.Fancy is the source of our baser desires. It is not creative facultybut a repository for lust.

Here the idea is that everything is the world is ‘dead’ and only the poet’s imagination can bring aspect of the world alive, which is the meaning of the world which Coleridge uses vital.

Some work by Coleridge.

The Rime of Ancient Mariner.

The Complete poems.

Biographia Literaria.

Kubla Khan.

“Poetry: The best words in the beat order.”

“ Water, water , everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water , everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”

The Rime of Ancient.