...components of the national interest. We are all familiar with the Coleridgean definition of the poet: "The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and " Mark Rose, Authors and Owners; Margreta...

...affected more than men by absent things as if they were present," has brought the "whole soul" of his into activity, "with the subordination of its faculties...other according to their relative worth and dignity." The result has been quite rewarding for the poet. These poems are an "overflow of powerful feelings"...

...'each Thing has a Life of it's [sic] own, & yet they are all one Life' [Lerters, II:866): the poet -diffuses a tone, and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each' (Biographia, II:16). It is only where the processes of the diffused imagination are 'rendered impossible'...

...forward to what in the Biographia Literaria Coleridge held to be the proper definition of the ideal poet: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity... He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity... by that synthetic ... power, to which we have exclusively...

...conclusion than the following excerpt from Coleridge. In his Bioffraphia Ltteraria he writes: The poet . . . brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the...their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone, a spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) ruses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical...

...synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination [,] brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other [and] diffuses a spirit of unity' (ibid.), Mandel'shtam's synthetic poet has nothing 'magical' about...

...zurückfuhren. In Biographia Literaria äußert sich Coleridge in einer für Emerson entscheidenden Passage: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the...each into each, by that synthetic and magical power of which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination. This power [...] reveals istself...

...throughout Coleridge's mature writings, perhaps most famously in his description of poetic creation. "The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the...and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) Juses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated...

...for Dennis poetry provides for the "Satisfaction of the whole Man together," for Coleridge the poet "brings the whole soul of man into activity, with...other, according to their relative worth and dignity" (Biographia Literaria, ch. 14). It is a short step theoretically from Dennis's satisfaction of the...

...incompatible, actually work in concert together (in great literary works) becomes a central point: 'The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the...other, according to their relative worth and dignity' (BL ii. 15-16); and see 497. Locke and Hume appear as prominent representatives of the native empiricist...