Who defined the ideal poet as one who 'brings the whole soul of man into activity'?
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Correct answer: C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Biographia Literaria, ch. 14: the poet 'brings the whole soul of man into activity' through the synthetic, 'esemplastic' power of imagination.
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