ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In one of the most famous passages in Biographia Literaria, Coleridge offers a theory of creativity (pp. 95-96). He divides imagination into primary and secondary. Primary imagination is common to all humans: it enables us to perceive and make sense of the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -Biographia Literaria was the most important work of literary criticism of the English Romantic period, combining philosophy and literary criticism in a new way, and it was lastingly influential.

Detailed explanation-3: -The three main themes in Biographia Literaria are artistic influences, poetic form, and individual expression.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Coleridge, Imagination has two forms i.e. Primary and Secondary. Primary imagination is merely the power of receiving impressions of the external world through the senses. It is the power of perceiving the objects of sense, both in their parts and as a whole.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Transformative Power of the Imagination. Coleridge believed that a strong, active imagination could become a vehicle for transcending unpleasant circumstances. The Interplay of Philosophy, Piety, and Poetry. Nature and the Development of the Individual.