Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an influential English poet and philosopher in the Romantic movement. He developed a theory of imagination that distinguished between primary and secondary imagination. Primary imagination observes the world directly through perception, while secondary imagination is a more conscious and comprehensive faculty that shapes raw materials through all human faculties into objects of beauty and meaning. Coleridge believed secondary imagination was responsible for truly creative and inventive acts in poetry by unifying different forms and extracting hidden ideas.

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Coleridge's Theory Of
Imagination
SOLANKI CHIRAGKUMAR K
MA SEM : 2
ROLL NUM : 3
Enrollment No : 2069108420180049
BANCH : 2017-19
Submitted To : Department Of
English, MKBU

2. z Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on
21th October 1772.
 He was an English poet, Literary Critic and
Philosopher. His literary movement was
Romanticism
 Coleridge and William Wordsworth was the
founder of the Romantic Movement in
England.
 His major prose work is Biographia
Literaria.
1772-1834

3. z INTRODUCTION
 Imagination is the basic and most important creative faculty in a
poet and impossible to write a poem without an imagination
 Threw imagination a poet observes different forms and objects
in human life and their nature. So it can be defined more
beautifully.
 With the help of imagination it melts and spread into a “Sweet
Solution”. So it is called “Shaping and unifying power”.

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 Coleridge imagination was responsible for acts that were
truly creative and inventive.
 The imagination, on the other hand, was vital and
transformative.
 Imagination described the “mysterious power” which
extracted from such data, hidden ideas and meaning.
 Coleridge has divided Imagination in two Major forms: The
first one is Primary Imagination and second one is
Secondary Imagination.

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Imagination

6. z Primary Imagination
 It is natural form of imagination and it focuses on
the basic criteria of the imagination.
 It is used only one sense and that is the sense of
perception
 This form basically observes the activity of person.
It is very much near to the world of reality.

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 It is the common faculty of every human being.
 This form of imagination is also observes the real
forms of persons, places, things and subject of
nature. And then Primary imagination combines them
in one form

8. z SECONDARY IMAGINATION
 It is a conscious form of imagination.
 it is faculty of the soul, using all faculties like
perception, intellect with emotions and spirituality.
 Secondary imagination works on the all types minor
and major aspects of imagination.
 It directly in touch with the soul of imagination that is
why it is more active and more comprehensive faculty
than the primary imagination.

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 It helps understanding the unity of universal, like
good, truth, moral
 When the secondary imagination is rising up in the
mind, in its process of shaping and modifying, the
mind and nature used to act against each other.
 Secondary imagination selects and orders the raw
material and reshapes and remodels it into objects of
beauty.