A Way of Seeing: Perception, Imagination, and PoetrySteinerBooks, 2003 - 167 pagina's We usually think of imagination as a fanciful, whimsical faculty that has little to do with reality and truth. This beautifully written book by the Australian poet John Allison shows how ordinary imagination can be intensified to become an organ of cognition--a path of development to real knowing. Allison shows how poetry--poetic knowing and seeing--can reveal aspects of the world invisible to science. Three lucid chapters describe the path to true imagination, where attention is the key. First we must practice it, then we must become aware of the processes involved in it. Learning to experience "poise," we must come to terms with the shadow--or all that says "No" in us. The combination of attention, equanimity, and assent opens the world in a new way. Allison then examines how poets have actually developed and practiced the kind of "deep seeing" that "image work" involves. For this he draws on William Shakespeare, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novalis, John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Octavio Paz. The author concludes with a sequence of his own poems that exemplify the philosophy and practice he has developed. Contents:
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... Negative Capability . .58 Deep Seeing .68 Instress and Inscape .79 Heartwork .90 Three : The Poetic Image Another Way of Seeing Things .107 V This One 3ZDP - 1J1 - TC4J Four : Seeing Things Living in the World .. ..119.
... deep well of the mind , and at this instant we may pass as well into a tree or a hill , as when the dream- er travelling to some far place finds himself not farther from the soul but nearer to it , and wakes with the sweet sensation of ...
... deep well of the mind . " In this place we discover that everything is continually in a process of becom- ing something else — it is a world of transformations , of a kind of constant " morphing . " Here , we can experience that , just ...
... deep well of the mind " where he " finds himself not farther from the soul but nearer to it , and wakes with the sweet sensation of friendship from other worlds . " This is where attentiveness can lead us . First , a truly focused ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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Developing Imagination | 18 |
Owning the Shadow | 27 |
Getting It | 37 |
Freeing Imagination from Fancy | 47 |
Negative Capability | 58 |
Deep Seeing | 68 |
Instress and Inscape | 79 |
Another Way of Seeing Things | 107 |
Living in the World | 119 |
Connections | 127 |
Three Portals of the Imagination | 133 |
Crossings | 140 |
This | 150 |
Seeing Things II | 161 |
Heartwork | 90 |