Reading list order, by year, 1st draft

Akenside, Mark. The Pleasures of Imagination. London: R. Dodsley, 1744.

Ruskin, John. Modern painters. Sunnyside: Orpington, Kent, G. Allen, 1883.

Gore, Willard Clark. The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume. Chicago: ??, 1902.

Leeming, Benjamin Christopher. Imagination, Mind's Dominant Power. New York: The M. H. Schroeder company, 1926.

Hargreaves, Herbert Lyde. The Faculty of Imagination. Cambridge: The University press, 1927.

Lowes, John Livingston. The Road to Xanadu: a study in the ways of the imagination. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.

Bundy, Murray Wright. The Theory of Imagination in Classical and Mediaeval thought. Urbana: The University of Illinois, 1927.

Mirandola, Pico della, and Giovanni Francesco; Trans. Harry Caplan. On the Imagination. London: Oxford University press, 1930.

Babbitt, Irving. On Being Creative. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.

Welch, Livingston. Imagination and Human Nature. London: K. Paul, Trench,
Trubner & Company. Ltd., 1935.

Sherwood, Margaret Pollock. Coleridge's Imaginative Conception of the Imagination. Folcroft: Folcroft Library Editions, 1937.

Barrett, Mary Constance. An Experimental Study of the Thomistic Concept of the Faculty of Imagination. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1941.

Gordon, Kate. Studies in the Theory of Imagination. Los Angeles: Stanford University Press, 1941.

Goetz, Mary Dorothea. A Study of Ruskin's Concept of the Imagination. Washington: Catholic University of America, 1947.

Sartre, Jean Paul. The Psychology of Imagination. Trans. Jonathan Webber. New York: Philosophical Library, 1948.

Osborn, Alexander Faickney. Your Creative Power: how to use imagination. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1948.

Ryle, Gilbert. The Concept of Mind. London: Hutchinson’s
University Library, 1949.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong. Coleridge on Imagination. New York: W. W. Norton, 1950.

Willey, Basil. Coleridge on Imagination and Fancy. London: Proceedings of the British Academy, 1951.

McKellar, Peter. Imagination and Thinking: a psychological analysis. New York: Basic Books, 1957.

Baker, James Volant. The Sacred River: Coleridge's theory of the imagination. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1957.

Collingwood, Robin George, and. The Principles of Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958.

Gupta, Subodh Chandra Sen. Towards a Theory of the Imagination. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1959.

Tuveson, Ernest Lee. The Imagination as a Means of Grace: Locke and the aesthetics of romanticism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.

Chiari, Joseph. Realism and Imagination. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1960.

Furlong, E. J. Imagination. London: Allen & Unwin, 1961.

Williams, J. P. Sartre; Trans. with introd. by Forrest. Imagination: a psychological critique. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962.

Levi, Albert William. Literature, Philosophy and the Imagination. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962.

Rugg, Harold Ordway. Imagination. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Makkreel, Rudolf Adam. Wilhelm Dilthey's Concept Of The Imagination, Thesis (Ph.D.). New York: Colombia Univeristy, 1966.

Ehrenzweig, Anton. The Hidden Order of Art: a study in the psychology of artistic imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

Wilbanks, Jan. Hume's Theory of Imagination. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968.

Hart, Ray Lee. Unfinished Man and the Imagination: toward an ontology and a rhetoric of revelation. New York: Herder and Herder, 1968.

Kennedy, Wilma L. The English heritage of Coleridge of Bristol, 1798. Hamden: Archon Books, 1969.

Sprigge, Timothy L. S. Facts, Words and Beliefs. London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1970.

McVickar, Polly. Imagination: key to human potential. Washington: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1972.

Alves, Rubem A. Tomorrow's Child: imagination, creativity, and the rebirth of culture.
New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Mott, Jacolyn A. Creativity and imagination. Mankato: Creative Education, Inc., 1973.

Baron, Theodule Armand Ribot; Trans. by Albert H. N. Essay on the Creative Imagination. New York: Arno Press, 1973.

Scruton, Roger. Art and Imagination: a study in the philosophy of mind. London: Harper and Row, 1974.

Chambliss, J. J. Imagination and Reason in Plato, Aristotle, Vico, Rousseau, and Keats. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1974.

Wilner, Eleanor. Gathering the Winds: visionary imagination and radical transformation of self and society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Whitaker, Stephen P. Imagination and Fancy in Nineteenth Century Literature. Norwood: Norwood Editions, 1975.

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm. The Imaginative Faculty: a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, May 26th, 1893. Norwood: Norwood Editions, 1975.

Warnock, Mary. Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Casey, Edward S. Imagining: a phenomenological study. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976.

Horine, Henry Corbin; trans. by Ruth. Mundus Imaginalis: or, The imaginary and the imaginal. Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1976.

Donoghue, Denis. The Sovereign Ghost: studies in imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Mayne, Zachary. Two Dissertations Concerning Sense and the Imagination, 1728. New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.

Kearney, Richard. The Phenomenology of Imagination, Thesis (M.A.). Ireland: University College Dublin, 1977.

Hill, S. T. Coleridge; edited by John Spencer. Imagination in Coleridge. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1978.

Bronowski, Jacob. The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Shackle, G. L. S. Imagination and the Nature of Choice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1979.

Avens, Roberts. Imagination is Reality: western nirvana in Jung, Hillman, Barfield, and Cassirer. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1980.

Engell, James. The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Avens, Roberts. Imaginal Body: para-Jungian reflections on soul, imagination, and death. Washington: University Press of America, 1982.

Hohler, T.P. Imagination and Reflection: intersubjectivity: Fichte's Grundlage of 1794. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1982.

Sloan, Douglas. Insight Imagination: the emancipation of thought and the modern world. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Pruyser, Paul W. The Play of the Imagination: toward a psychoanalysis of culture. New York: International Universities Press, 1983.

McFarland, Thomas. Originality and Imagination. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

O'Connell, Robert J. Imagination and Metaphysics in St. Augustine. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1986.

McCleary, Richard C. Imagination's Body. Pittsburgh: University Press of America, 1986.

Johnson, Mark. The Body in the Mind: the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Murray, edited by Edward L. Imagination and Phenomenological Psychology. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1987.

Novitz, David. Knowledge, Fiction and Imagination. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Sallis, John. Spacings of Reason and Imagination in Texts of Kant, Fichte, Hegel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Wedin, Michael V. Mind and Imagination in Aristotle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Watson, Gerard. Phantasia in Classical Thought. Galway: Galway University Press, 1988.

Leask, Nigel. The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge's Critical Thought. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Kearney, Richard. The Wake of Imagination: toward a postmodern culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

Gallant, edited by Christine. Coleridge's Theory of Imagination Today. New York: AMS Press, 1989.

Gouwens, David J. Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the Imagination. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

Chittick, William C. The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi's metaphysics of imagination. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

Makkreel, Rudolf A. Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: the hermeneutical import of the Critique of judgment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

White, Alan R. The Language of Imagination. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1990.

Murray, J.M. Cocking ; edited with introduction by Penelope. Imagination: a Study in the History of Ideas. London: Routledge, 1991.

Kearney, Richard. Poetics of Imagining: from Husserl to Lyotard. London: Harper Collins Academic, 1991.

Collins, Christopher. The Poetics of The Mind's eye: literature and the psychology of imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Casey, Edward S. Spirit and Soul: essays in philosophical psychology. 2nd ed. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1991.

Brann, Eva T. H. The World of the Imagination: sum and substance. Savage,
Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991.

Mehta, Uday Singh. The Anxiety of Freedom: imagination and individuality in Locke's political thought. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Miller, Cecilia. Giambattista Vico: imagination and historical knowledge. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Hollo, Verena Kast ; trans. by Anselm. Imagination as Space of Freedom: dialogue between the ego and the unconscious. New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1993.

Lewry, Robert Kilwardby; edited by P. Osmund. On Time and Imagination (De tempore ; De spiritu fantastico). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Banwart, Mary. Hume's Imagination. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.

Freydberg, Bernard. Imagination and Depth in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.

Warnock, Mary. Imagination and Time. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

Gibbons, Sarah L. Kant's Theory of Imagination: bridging gaps in judgement and experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Rundell, edited by Gillian Robinson and John. Rethinking Imagination: culture and creativity. London: Routledge, 1994.

Pyle, Forest. The Ideology of Imagination: subject and society in the discourse of Romanticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Evans, Jeanne. Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Imagination. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.

Kearney, Richard. Poetics of Modernity: Toward a Hermeneutic Imagination. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1995.

Sepper, Dennis L. Descartes's Imagination: proportion, images, and the activity of thinking. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Irwin, Lee. Visionary Worlds: the making and unmaking of reality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Chodorow, C. G. Jung; edited with introduction by Joan. Jung on Active Imagination. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Sontag, Frederick. Truth and Imagination: the universes within. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997.

Sallis, John. Force of Imagination: the sense of the elemental. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Llewelyn, John. The Hypocritical Imagination: between Kant and Levinas. London: Routledge, 2000.

Edelman, Gerald M. A Universe of Consciousness: how matter becomes imagination. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination: the vibrant flux of our existence. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

Ravenscroft, Gregory Currie and Ian. Recreative Minds: imagination in philosophy and psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Modell, Arnold H. Imagination and the Meaningful Brain. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

Bates, Jennifer Ann. Hegel's Theory of Imagination. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Nauta, Lodi and, and Pätzold, Detlev. Imagination in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2004.

Steeves, James B. Imagining Bodies: Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of imagination. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2004.

Lyons, John D. Before Imagination: embodied thought from Montaigne to Rousseau. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Freydberg, Bernard. Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical reason. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.