![]() ![]() terms, auditory imageries of space tend toward the strained, estranged, or impossible, leaving the speaker struggling to effect the imaginative escape he desires. Where visual imagery fluently “thinks” in spatial. Focusing on the “Ode to a Nightingale,” I trace that poem's wry critique of fancy through its auditory conceit and concomitant rejection of culturally and psychologically dominant visuocentric imageries of place. ![]() I propose that Keats’s attention to the fine workings of sensory imagery creates cognitive effects that go beyond his famed synesthesia. ![]()
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