Towards a Theory of the Imagination

Abhinavagupta abstract aesthetic Alexander Anandavardhana architecture art and poetry artistic activity beauty CHAPTER character Clive Bell Coleridge complex concepts concrete content of art creation creative criticism Croce dancing dialectical direct distinction drama element emotions Empson Engels existence experience expression feeling formal formative imagination gives Hamlet Herbert Read human I. A. Richards ibid ideal ideas images imitation important impression impulse Indian aesthetics individual intellectual intuition literary literature Locana looks Lucretius Marx Marxist materials matter Measure for Measure merely metaphor mind moral nature objects oblique meaning Othello painting particular partly passion Pater philosophy Plato pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry portray practical primary principle produces pure R. G. Collingwood rasa reality realize reason reference reflexion relation Roger Fry sculpture seems sense Shakespeare significance spirit subject-matter symbols T. E. Hulme theory things thought tion tragedy true truth unity vision vital Wilson Knight words