ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -This discussion regarding the difference between fancy and imagination is in chapter XIII of “Biographia Literaria” 1817 but it is incomplete and left abruptly. Coleridge points out that, the mind becomes mechanical, a mere association of ideas, nature without life under the impact of fancy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coleridge comments in Chapter four of Biographia Literaria: “Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley had a very fanciful mind”. The primary concern of Biographia Literaria was the distinction between fancy and imagination in its influence on poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chapter 13 Summary Wrestling with observations about the nature of space and motion, Coleridge claims that transcendental philosophy requires that “two forces should be conceived which counteract each other by their essential nature” (95).

Detailed explanation-4: -In chapter fourteen of Biographia Literaria, Coleridge discusses the nature of poetry and its function in detail; however, philosophically. He poses a number of questions regarding the nature and function of poetry and then answers them. Coleridge’s view of poetry has been elaborated in this chapter.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Coleridge, imagination is the faculty associated with creativity and the power to shape and unify, while fancy, dependent on and inferior to imagination, is merely “associative.”