...metaphor which "diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends and (as it were) fuses, each to each . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...discordant qualities: of sameness with difference. . . ,"122 It is always "familiar yet an aberration," until the aberration is absorbed within the expanding...

...control (*laxis effertur habenis* [it is carried onward with loose reins; Virgil, Georgics 11.364]) 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;...

...retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, controul [sic] (laxis effertar habenis) 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;...

...and retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, controul (laxix effertur habenis) reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects [...]. Sitwell puts it similarly in A Poet's Notebook, when she writes, "[t]he Poet accomplishes his...

...and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects.4 In this, we see that specifically Romantic predicament from which Richards takes his extremely...

...imaginative fusion of competing energies, and was most successful when it led to a balance of opposites: 'the general with the concrete; the idea with the image; the individual with the representative; ... a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order'.1 This was an important antecedent...

...Imagination' (an 'echo' of the primary imagination which, like that faculty, is a 'synthetic . . . power' that 'reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities')" (Natural Supernaturalism, 268). 12. Eugene Stelzig is therefore correct when he insists that Romantic...

...diversity and contradiction: Coleridge described organicism as constituting 'unity in multeity', or 'the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference'.45 Similarly, the notion that the organic work is a complete and unified whole in direct...

...and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination" as revealing "itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite...the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image."20 This process of reconciliation is carried out through a focus on similarity, or metaphor....

...and understanding, and retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, control . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of...discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference, of general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual with the representative."7 The...