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secondary imagination: a standalone construct

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Literary theory

the conscious, shaping power of the poet that dissolves and recreates perceptions into new unified forms, as distinct from fancy.

In literary theory, secondary imagination refers to the conscious, shaping power of the poet that dissolves and recreates perceptions into new unified forms, as distinct from fancy. This meaning comes from Coleridge (1817/1991) in Biographia literaria.[1]

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  1. Coleridge, S. T. (1991). Biographia literaria (G. Watson, Ed.). J. M. Dent. (Original work published 1817) ISBN 9780460871082

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