...81. 4. For example, in the depiction of the imagination as "that synthetic and magical power [that] reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities" (Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, 2:16). 5. Another indication would be provided if it could be definitively...

...alles überragende Kraft des Dichters darstellt. Laut Coleridge bewirkt die Imagination insbesondere the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant...than usual state of emotion. with more than usual orden judgement ever awake and steady self-possession. with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement...

...the classic description of its nature and power. It 'reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness,...usual state of emotion, with more than usual order'. (Brooks [1942] 1972: 300-301) In this emphasis on paradox - a statement containing contradictory aspects...

...irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed control . . . , reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness,...usual state of emotion with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement; and...

...discordant qualities, sameness with difference, a sense of. novelty and freshness with old or customary objects, a more than usual state of emotion with more than usual order, self-possession and judgment with enthusiasm and vehement feeling, — and which, while it blends and...

...the close of chapter 14, Coleridge continues to follow Schelling in declaring that the miagination "reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities" (BL 2:16). As James Engell and W. Jackson Bate point out in their notes to this passage, Coleridge...

...and retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, controul (laxis ejjertur habenis) reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities" (BL 2: 16). These faculties, moreover, remain engaged in an explicitly conscious manner, with "judgement...

...magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power [...] reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement;...

...Coleridge explains, at length, that by 'the name of imagination' he means: 'the balance or recognition of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness,...usual state of emotion, with more than usual order . . .'. Many things can be said about Coleridge's definition of imagination. One is that it was much...

...'the name of magination' he means: 'the halance or recognition of opposite or discordant qualities: if sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the mage; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with Did and familiar...