INGLESE: Taylor Coleridge, riassunto vita, opere e pensiero.

Life

- Influenced by French revolutionary ideals.
- Rheumatism => large use of opium.
- Collaboration with Wordsworth.

Importance of imagination

C divided imagination in 2 part:
  • Primary imagination => connected with human perceptions (every body have this, but uses it unconsciously).
  • Secondary imagination => voluntary and use consciously, dissolves in order to re-create.



The power of fancy

Fancy is the mechanical ability of the poet to use devices, like metaphors, alliterations in poetry, in order to express his ideas.
The way in which he could communicate his ideas and visions to everybody
(enables the poet to blend various ingredients into beautiful images)

Importance of Nature

-Nature is not a moral guide or a source of consolation and happiness.

-Nature in neo platonic interpretation, as the reflection of the perfect word of ideas.

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