1st Edition

Fancy & Imagination

By R. L. Brett Copyright 1969
94 Pages
by Routledge

94 Pages
by Routledge

94 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1969, this book provides a concise and helpful introduction to the terms ‘fancy’ and ‘imagination’. Although they are generally associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the work begins with a discussion the history of these concepts which were also known to Aristotle, the Elizabethans, Hobbes, Locke and Blake. It then goes on to examine Coleridge’s theory of imagination and the... Read more

General Editor’s Preface; 1. Imagination and the Association of Ideas 2. Coleridge’s Distinction between Fancy and Imagination 3. Symbol and Concept; Bibliography; Index

Biography

R. L. Brett