{"id":13205,"date":"2010-07-25T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=13205"},"modified":"2010-07-25T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T04:00:37","slug":"samuel-coleridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/25\/samuel-coleridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Coleridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/coleridge_st_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14153\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/coleridge_st_02.jpg\" alt=\"coleridge_st_02\" width=\"250\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/coleridge_st_02.jpg 250w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/coleridge_st_02-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this date <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Coleridge\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Coleridge<\/a> died (1772-1834).<\/p>\n<p>Frye in<em> &#8220;Rencontre: the General Editor&#8217;s Introduction&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coleridge took over from Spinoza the distinction between <em>natura naturata<\/em>, nature as structure or system, and <em>natura naturans<\/em>, nature as creative process, and all his philosophy turns on the superiority and priority of the latter.\u00a0 The importance of this for literature is mainly in the new status given to the poet, or the artist or creative person generally, as a result.\u00a0 As long as it is assumed, in Sir Thomas Browne&#8217;s phrase, &#8220;Nature is the art of God,&#8221; the poet cannot be more than an imitator of nature at one remove, and of God at two removes.\u00a0 Man&#8217;s creative power is at best a faint shadow of the power that made the realities of the world.\u00a0 But for Coleridge, and increasingly for Romantic writers, man&#8217;s creative power does not imitate a structure of things out there, but participates in the organic structure of nature.\u00a0 The poet creates, first, because he is alive and participates in the being of God (primary imagination), and second, because creation is the highest effort of conscious life. 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Frye in &#8220;Rencontre: the General Editor&#8217;s Introduction&#8221; Coleridge took over from Spinoza the distinction between natura naturata, nature as structure or system, and natura naturans, nature as creative process, and all his philosophy turns on the superiority and priority of the latter.\u00a0 The importance of this for literature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries","category-romanticism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Samuel Coleridge - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/25\/samuel-coleridge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Samuel Coleridge - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On this date Samuel Coleridge died (1772-1834). 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