...ten miles of fertile ground were enclosed with a wall.' The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses,...composed less than from two to three hundred lines. On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen,...

...two to three hundred lines, which he had nothing to do but to write down, "the images rising up ai' things, with a parallel production of the correspondent...without any sensation or consciousness of effort." The whole of this singular fragment, as it stands, consisting of fifty-four lines, wa• written as...

...vivid consciousness that he composed not less than from two to three hundred lines, if that can indeed be called composition in which all the images rose...the correspondent expressions, without any sensation of effort. On awaking, he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and, taking...

...ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall." The author continued for aoout three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the. external senses,...consciousness of effort. On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly...

...ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.' The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses,...that he could not have composed less than from two or three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before...

...accompanying preface that the whole thing had come to him in his sleep, during which time he ha[d] the most vivid confidence, that he could not have...without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awakening he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen,...

...the author since to the images he sees in his dream, he gets the words and lines of the poem, "... if that indeed can be called composition in which...without any sensation or consciousness of effort" (163, emphasis added). So in the dream he is given the images directly as things, and he is given the...

...been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep": The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses,...without any sensation or consciousness of effort. (OW295-o.6) De Quincey's images further attenuate this consciousness of labor, for the pleasure-domes...

...when he received in a dream the full text of "Kubla Khan," Blake seems the producer of poetical works "in which all the images rose up before him as things,...parallel production of the correspondent expressions." Words as images, words as things. In this respect, it is difficult to avoid the similarity of Blake's...

...conveys his own conviction, is remarkably like his own account of how he composed 'Kubla Khan' in a state 'in which all the images rose up before him as things,...expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort'.81 Swedenborg's visions could be regarded as having poetic and symbolic truth, and this helps...