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Literature and Imagination.
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LITERATURE AND IMAGINATION: "Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason." "Life of Milton"-Samuel Johnson In "Critical Approaches to Literature", David Daiches has said that the imagination, in its primary manifestation, is "the great ordering principle", an agency which enables us both "to discriminate and to order, to separate and to synthesize, and thus makes perception possible", for without it, we would have only a collection of meaningless sensory data. Literary theory and poetry materialize concurrently, for poets have a strong tendency to form opinions about their craft and to use these opinions as part of the message of their poems. Imagination is undoubtedly inherent in literature, the prime component in any work of art, but this view has been a cause of debate since the dawn of literature and criticism. As with most dissentions and philosophy regarding literature and its attendant...
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