... describes the key elements that constitute Romantic literature, among them the role of the Imagination. However, before one can understand the role of the Imagination in Romantic literature, it is vital to understand what constitutes the Imagination as described by Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria, and how this definition ties in with Wordsworths comments in his Preface. Although Wordsworths "Preface" and Coleridges ... notice, as might seem, / Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, / Or of some hermits cave, where by his fire / The hermit sits alone" (18-23). Although the spe...

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