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
Analysis
Imagination Theories of Western European writers 1700-1850
