Before revision: The musical model was satirized, along with the afflatus, and "fancy" models of inspiration, by Jonathan Swift in A Tale of a Tub.
After revision: Imagination, the Romantics argued, is a tool to see things that the intelligence is blind to.From Sight to Vision: a review of Maurice Bowra’s book ‘The Romantic Imagination’The musical model was satirized, along with the afflatus, and "fancy" models of inspiration, by Jonathan Swift in A Tale of a Tub.