...shaping spirit of Imagination," Coleridge called it in Dejection, and, in the Biographia Literaria, "the Soul that is everywhere, and in each ; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole." 8 And again, in the same chapter, he says, "This power . . . reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement...

...the "soft shower of words," as Mr Saintsbury calls it — the gradual dusky veil closing Chapter xiv. "Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, emotion its life, and imagination the soul" — with the rest of it. It is so pretty: Weave a circle...

...relative worth and dignity. Imagination is the power which fuses them into a harmonious whole: ". . . Good sense is the Body of poetic genius, Fancy its...each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole."12 Tracing Coleridge's water snakes in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner back to their literary...

...chapter is this well-known pronouncement: Finally, GOOD SENSE is the BODY of poetic genius, FANCY is its DRAPERY, MOTION its LIFE, and IMAGINATION the...forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole. It comes, characteristically enough, just after the famous passage on imagination, which is of another...

...paragraph following this one about the poet, Coleridge calls the Imagination the Soul of poetic genius, "that is everywhere, and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole". But the Inner Sense is the power behind the throne and Imagination only its accredited regent or representative....

...concludes this chapter, in which he professes to give his conclusions on the nature of poetry, by saying: "Finally Good Sense is the Body of poetic genius,...forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole." These bombastic personifications where a concept "Motion," not otherwise used, appears as the "life"...

...usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgment ever awake and steady self-posession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement;...motion its life, and imagination the soul that is every where, and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole. 63 WALTER BRADFORD...

...control) our minds, is indebted to German critical think- In B Poets n 689. Finally, GOODSENSEistheBODYof poetic genius, FANCY its DRAPERY, MOTION its LIFE, and IMAGINATION the SOUL that is every where, and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.i i The first version...

...individual with the representative, and so on. In the final sentence of the chapter, Coleridge says that "GOOD SENSE is the BODY of poetic genius, FANCY its...MOTION its LIFE, and IMAGINATION the SOUL that is every where, and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole."17 In some of the...

...the universe, so, in the perfect poem, the God-like 'imagination [is] the soul that is every where, and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole' (Biographia, II:18). Coleridge told Cottle: 'what the Globe is in Geography, miniaturing in order to...