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... Imagination is the superior mode , because " such a vision is total . It encompasses any aspect of our temporality , of our em- pirical presence . Hence our tangible confinement in time and space is inferior to the play of our imagination ...
... Imagination is the superior mode , because " such a vision is total . It encompasses any aspect of our temporality , of our em- pirical presence . Hence our tangible confinement in time and space is inferior to the play of our imagination ...
Page 120
... imagination , our most personally human faculty , we can organize external chaos into something fresh , per- ceptive , and palatable to author and reader alike . This is not ideal- ism , for " The mind orders reality not by imposing ...
... imagination , our most personally human faculty , we can organize external chaos into something fresh , per- ceptive , and palatable to author and reader alike . This is not ideal- ism , for " The mind orders reality not by imposing ...
Page 167
... imagination and reality , the same understanding in both that one is not ' better ' than the other but that the poet must make reality useful through the employment of the imagination , and conversely , imagination , to be legitimate ...
... imagination and reality , the same understanding in both that one is not ' better ' than the other but that the poet must make reality useful through the employment of the imagination , and conversely , imagination , to be legitimate ...
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