ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Esemplastic is a qualitative adjective which the English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed to have invented.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coleridge refers to the “esemplastic power of the imagination”, “esemplastic” meaning “shaping into One”. Imagination-Coleridge‟s “esemplastic” power is intuitive, unitive, faculty that sees the Whole behind the parts, the One behind the many.

Detailed explanation-3: -: shaping or having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole. the esemplastic power of the poetic imagination W. H. Gardner.

Detailed explanation-4: -His most famous works – ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘Christabel’ – all featured supernatural themes and exotic images, perhaps affected by his use of the drugs.

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.”