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The creative imagination : Enlightenment to Romanticism
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The creative imagination : Enlightenment to Romanticism

Author: James Engell
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Engell
ISBN: 0674175727 9780674175723
OCLC Number: 6626160
Description: xix, 416 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Probing the source: The essential idea -- Empiricism in earnest: Hobbes and Locke -- Claims of the spirit: Shaftesbury and Leibniz -- The creative impulse: Addison through Akenside and the 1740s -- The inner structure of life: Hume and Johnson -- pt. 2. A broader stage: New aesthetics and criticism: the Associationists and the Scots -- Investigators of genius: Gerard and Duff -- pt. 3. The German foundation: Shadows a century long -- The new focus of literature and myth -- The great metamorphosis: Tetens and Kant -- pt. 4. The psyche reaches out: sympathy -- The psyche reaches out: coalescence and the chemistry of the mind -- Distinctions between fancy and imagination -- A plateau in Britain and developments in America -- Organic sensibility: Hazlitt -- pt. 5. Literary explorations: The new philosopher's stone and the new Pierian spring -- The prophetic and visionary: Blake and Shelley -- Wordsworth -- Goethe and Keats -- pt. 6. Harmony of being: Schelling -- Coleridge.
Responsibility: James Engell.

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