
In "Biographia Literaria", Coleridge comments that the difference between 'Fancy' and 'Imagination' is the same as the difference between a mechanical mixture and a chemical mixture
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In "Biographia Literaria", Coleridge comments that the difference between 'Fancy' and 'Imagination' is the same as the difference between a mechanical mixture and a chemical mixture
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Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, University of North Bengal (University of North Bengal), course: Masters, language: English, abstract: "The theory of imagination", as Masao Okamoto observes, "which was coming to have a very important role in the literary criticism in England, came to maturity towards the end of the eighteenth century, and was consummated in the criticism of S.T. Coleridge." Under the influence of his father, John Coleridge who was well-versed in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, Samuel read many books from his childhood and in his early teens he was called by Lamb, a "logician, metaphysician, Bard!" According to Lamb, Coleridge was heard reading such books as Iamblicus and Plotinus out loud in the corridor of Christ Hospital.
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