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The Abstract
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One
sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all
as frantic,
Sees Helen�s beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet�s eye, in a
fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to
heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the
poet�s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local
habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it
would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or
in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!"
-A Midsummer Night�s Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.�
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