Sir Phillip Sidney, An Apologie for Poetry, in Adams, Critical Theory Since Plato (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971), p. 156. (Only quoted passages here are quoted; the rest are paraphrastic.)

Remembering here Immanuel Kant, Kritik der Urteilskraft.

Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, trans. C. Lenhardt (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), p.1.

Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1968), p. 224 (substituting "poetry" for Benjamin's "art").

Sidney, p. 158.

V. Plato, The Republic X.

V. Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

Ann Lauterbach, in conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Penguin Books, The Viking Press, 1968), pp. 14-5.

V. Galen, &c.; and Demetrius, On Style.

Charles Bernstein, "State of the Art," in A Poetics (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 11602), p. 1.

What is aura, actually?

W. B. Yeats, "Preface (c. 1892) to The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, ed. Edwin J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats, 3 vols. (1893)," in Prefaces and Introductions; Uncollected Prefaces and Introductions by Yeats to Works by other Authors and to Anthologies Edited by Yeats (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1988), p. 78 (substituting "Poetry" for Yeats's "Imagination").

V. Coleridge, "Lay Sermons, 1," from The Statesman's Manual, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge (--the Oxford Authors) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 661.

V. Northrop Frye, on "naive allegory," Anatomy of Criticism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), p. 89.

Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), p. 69.

Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), p. 31.

Robert Duncan, "The Truth and Life of Myth," in Fictive Certainties (New York: New Directions, 1985) p. 7.

Sidney, p. 159.

Wallace Stevens, "Imagination as Value," in The Necessary Angel (New York: Vintage Books, 1951), pp. 133-4.

Frye, p. 45.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, proposition 7.

Barbara Guest, "Poetry the True Fiction," in Exact Change Yearbook 11605 (Boston: Exact Change, 11605), p.100.

Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chap. XVIII; in Samuel Taylor Coleridge (--the Oxford Authors), pp. 346-7.