Imagination in the Contemporary World and the Legacy of Romantic Literary Thought

Letters of S.T. Coleridge. <http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~phoenix/im-51.htm> Pp 2-6.

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Lovejoy, Arthur O. “Optimism and Romanticism.” Eighteenth Century English Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism.  Ed. James L. Clifford. New York: oxford UP, 1959. Pp. 319-343.

McFarland, Thomas. “Theory of Secondary Imagination.” New Perspectives on Coleridge and Wordsworth. Ed. Geoffrey Hartman.  New York & London: Columbia UP, 1972. Pp. 194-246.

Sherwood, Margaret.  “Wordsworth: The Imaginative Will.” Undercurrents of Influence in English Romantic Poetry. New York: AMS Press, 1934, 1971.

Stllinger, Jack.  Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems.

New York & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.  Pp. 1-140.

Thomas, Nigel J. T.  “Are Theories of Imagery Theories of Imagination?  An Active Perception

Approach to Conscious Mental Contact.” In press: Cognitive Science

<http://web,calstatela.edu/faculty/nthomas/im-im/im-im.htm> pp. 1-40

acquired 9/22/99

Some Additional Readings:

Babbitt, Irving.  “The Problem of the Imagination.” On Being Creative and Other Essays, New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1932.

Baker, J. V. The Sacred River: Coleridge’s Theory of the Imagination.  Baton Rouge;

LA State UP, 1957. (This is not me!)

Baars, B. J. “When Are Images Conscious? The Curious Disconnection between Imagery and Consciousness in the Scientific Literature.”  Consciousness and Cognition, 5, 1996.  Pp. 261-264.

Tyler, T. L. “Elements of Plato in Coleridge’s Theory of the Imagination.” Essay for

Professors McGaughey and Dalsant, Dept. Of English,

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