...simply what I do").7 As Coleridge said, "What is poetry? is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution to the other."8 So an inquiry into the conditions that make poetry possible will henceforward require...

...synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination [,] brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other [and] diffuses a spirit of unity' (ibid.), Mandel'shtam's synthetic poet has nothing 'magical' about...

...Imagination in the first part of this work. What is poetry ? — is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet ?*— that the answer to the one is involved...other. For it is a distinction resulting from the the confusion of ordinary readers, prefer to Lucan's. Douza says, se hunf impetum pluris faeere, guam...

...Christabel cannot be cleansed. Coleridge maintained his faith in Schiller's ideal of the schone Seele: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity' (BL ch. 14). But in a fallen world, where perfection waits to be realised, the notion of intention...

...Coleridge, ch.14, Biographia Literaria: 'What is poetry? is nearly the same question with, what is a poet? that the answer to the one is involved in...images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind.' From Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge (random House, 1951), ed. D. Stauffer. questions — all...

...passion. He argued that the question 'What is Poetry? Is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? That the answer to the one is involved in...images, thoughts and emotions of the poet's own mind' (173). While the imagination had tended to be seen as a faculty which the poet could employ for his...

...question with "what is a poet?" ', declares Coleridge in chapter 14 of his Biographia Literaria (1817), 'that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.' Coleridge goes on to define the poet 'in ideal perfection' in terms of his ability to unify, balance,...

...that promise by looking at a passage everywhere taken as exemplary of a Romantic idea of authority: and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind. A poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...

...Lyrical Ballads," 1: 138) Coleridge: "What is poetry? is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other. . . . The poet described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the...

...the human spirit."29 Coleridge suggested, in a passage that followed his definition of poetry, that "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity He diffuses a tone, and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that...