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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (two kind of imagination (primary imagination…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Born Devonshire 1772
studied at cambridge but never graduated
disillusioment french revolution
with Robert Southey
planned estabilish utopian community
in pennsylvania Pantisocracy
economic activity were done in common
private ownership didn't exist
this project came to nothing
He suffer of rheumatism
doctor prescribed opium
developed growing addiction to this drug
Met Wordsworth
joined to him and his sister lake District
spent a period of solitude in Malta
returnet to England
two kind of imagination
primary imagination
conntected with human perceptions
that is used unconsciously
Secondary imagination
voluntary used consciously
by it human can recreate reality in a different way
fancy
ability the poet had to use devices
like metaphors to express his ideas
His contemplation of nature
accompained by awareness
of presence of ideas in real
saw nature in a sort of neo Platonic world
reflection of the world of ideas
archaic language
connected to old ballads