... sensations, and their roles in the formation and function of imagination in Wordsworths "Tintern Abbey" and Anna Barboulds "A Summer Evenings Meditation," demonstrate the ways in which these poems constitute Romantic lyrics. Coleridges dual definition of the Imagination, combined with Wordsworths comments on Romantic literature, is conveniently divided into three simple functions. Essentially, the Imagination is a mode of memory, a mode of ... of memory, the imagination "dissolves, diffuses, [and] dissipates, in order to recreate" (Coleridge, 750). It has the power to "conjure" up imag...

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