Themes -- Imagination
Imagination: a Romantic icon, highly problematized in the course of the novel.
Contexts -- Romanticism
Themes -- Delusion
Introduction 2
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("A succession of imaginary incidents") [1831 only]
Introduction 7
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("That blank incapability of invention") [1831 only]
Introduction 10
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("My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me") [1831 only]
Preface 1
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("A point of view to the imagination")
Letter 1.2
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("Day dreams")
Letter 1.2
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("Inspirited by this wind")
Letter 1.3
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("I also became a poet")
Letter 2.2
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("Day dreams are more extended")
1.1.3
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("So expressive of sensibility and sweetness") [1831 only]
1.1.4
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("Creations of the poets")
1.1.5
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("Chivalry and romance")
1.1.7
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("Chimerical")
1.1.10
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("The voice of command")
1.2.5
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("Chimeras")
1.3.2
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("Continual food for discovery and wonder")
1.3.4
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("Rapture")
1.3.5
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("My imagination was too exalted")
1.3.7
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("Had taken an irresistable hold of my imagination")
1.4.7
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("My disturbed imagination")
1.5.9
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("His conversation was full of imagination")
1.6.8
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("Imagination ... despair")
2.1.3
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("The imagination")
2.1.5
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("As belonging to another earth")
2.2.4
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("Dare you sport thus with life")
2.4.6
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("My imagination")
2.5.7
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("Self-deceit")
2.7.3
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("I learned ... thoughts")
2.7.5
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("But it was all a dream")
2.9.7
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("All pleasures ... life")
3.1.4
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("Imagination was dreadful")
3.1.5
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("Filled with dreary imaginations")
3.1.7
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("Fairy-land")
3.1.7
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("Wild and enthusiastic imagination")
3.3.5
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("My imagination ... sting me")
3.3.8
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("I might be driven into the wide Atlantic")
Walton 2
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("Almost as imposing and interesting as truth")
Walton 2
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("The strangest tale that ever imagination formed")
Walton 3
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("My imagination was vivid")
