Which Romantic poet famously described the Imagination as a 'repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM'?
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Correct answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In his 'Biographia Literaria', Coleridge defines the Primary Imagination as a divine-like creative force within human perception. He distinguished this from the Secondary Imagination, which is the more conscious, poetic faculty of coexisting with nature.
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