... 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 definition of Imagination illuminate the meaning and purpose of ... functions. Essentially, the Imagination is a mode of memory, a mode of perception, and a mode of projection. As a mode of memory, the imagination "dissolves, diffuses, [and] di...

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