the importance of imagination in coleridge's work with reference to biographia literaria
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It is about importance of imagination in Coleridge's work with reference to Biographia Literaria..Coleridge's imagination , that is, able to create rather than merely reassemble, by dissolving the fixatives and definite- the mental picture or images , received from the senses- and unifying them into a new whole. The mind which is distinguished from reason ,judgement and memory in that it receives images from the senses and recorders them into new combinations.TRANSCRIPT
Name : Jayshree solankiClass :M.A.Sem :1
Paper no: 3Enrollment no:pg14101028
Paper name: Literary theory and criticism
Topic : the importance of imagination in Coleridge's work with reference to biographia literaria
Submitted: Smt s. b. gardi m.k. bhavnagar university
THE IMPORTANCE OF IMAGINATION IN COLERIDGE’S WORK WITH REFERENCE TO BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA
1)Biographia Literaria is coleridge’s most valuable prose work.
2)Biographical literaria a fusion of literary criticism and religious philosophical theory.
3)It was published in 1817 in twovolumes.
4)His view on nature and function of poetry.
Comparison with wordsworth and Coleridge
wordsworth coledrige
He gives the charm of novelty to things of everyday objects of nature by coloring with the power of imagination.
HE gives the charm of novelty to things of everyday objects ; that known as supernatural nature
Wordsworth would write poetry dealing with the theme of faithful devotion to the truth of nature.
The treatment and subject matter should be, to quote Coleridge,
“ The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, whichmoon –light or sun-set diffused over a known and familiar landscape , appeared to representthe practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature.”
In this type poems , subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life; the characters and incidents were to be such, as will be found in every village and surrounding area,where there is a thoughtful and feeling mind to seek after them.
And the next type of poetry , to reference Coleridge,
“ The excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the drametic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations,supposingthemreal. And real in this sense they have been to every human beingwho,from whatever source of delusion,has at any time believed himself under supernatual agency.”
Thus, With the help of imagination the natural will be dealt supernaturally by the poet and the reader will realize it with ‘ Willing supension of disbelief ’
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