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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... John Allison . - 1st ed . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references . ISBN 1-58420-012 - X 1. Poetics . 2. Imagination . I. Title . PN1042.A544 2003 808.1 - dc21 2003007653 Contents Preface : A Way of Seeing One : Developing.
... Poets and Imagination Freeing Imagination from Fancy .47 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 ...
... poets journeying in the world of imagina- tion . The third way is concerned with the poetic image . The fourth is a part of my own journey in poetic imagination . A friend tells me that " poetry begins in the silence after the final ...
... poet Novalis , to which I shall return frequently : " The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet . Where they overlap , it is in every part of the overlap . " Attentiveness is about being present in these ...
... poet Robert BIy , introducing the poems " Silence in the Snowy Fields " in his Selected Poems , writes that : at certain moments , particularly moments alone , we can pass into a deep well of the mind , and at this instant we may pass ...
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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 |