ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses I. A. Richards's review of 'Coleridge on imagination. Coleridge would say that his philosophy was implicit in his psychology unless he was saying at the moment that to achieve his philosophy was to reach a state not of knowledge but of being, but Dr Richards makes a good case for his right to be as eclectic as Coleridge. The distinction between imagination and fancy 'is of use in many branches of psychology' ought at least to give many references in a footnote In the examples of fancy and Imagination it is obvious that there is a difference, not to be evaded by talk about 'matters of degree'; but then poetry can differ in many ways. T. E. Hulme seems to have thought that the main advantage of fancy was exact description, which is certainly among its powers; it gives an air of detachment and so a truth-feeling.
