1. Dreams
Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). ... Although Wordsworths "Preface" and Coleridges definition of Imagination illuminate the meaning and purpose of Romanticism, the extent to which Romantic poems truly express their vision varies. ...
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to layout the primary tenets of the much debated mind/body dualistic argument from the lens of philosophers from the ancient epoch but most elaborately from Rene Descartes. The most critical account of the mind-body theory was first systematically carried out by Descartes. To him, mind and body does not only exist, they are distinct and they causally interact at the pineal gland. Through his notion of clear and distinct ideas, Descartes infers the existence of the mind as a thinking substance and the body as an extended substance; hence the two are independen...