ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses M. H. Abrams's review of 'Coleridge on Imagination'. M. H. Abrams one of the most distinguished American literary critics and historians of his generation, visited Cambridge on a one-year Henry Fellowship shortly after completing his undergraduate degree at Harvard in 1934, being admitted as a pensioner of Magdalene College. Since all knowledge, produced by what Coleridge calls 'the primary Imagination', is a creative activity of the mind, so the secondary imagination acts upon the objects resulting from that knowledge, dissolves them, and reflects the original act of creation by fusing them into a new unity. Dr Richards has extricated the strands from the tangled web of theological and metaphysical ratiocination through which they run, and has rewoven them into a consistent exposition of the nature of consciousness and the nature of communication. The relations between poetry, religion, and science, will be entirely new to followers of Dr Richard's writings.
