The argument of this session is that the experience of synchronicity, which is rooted in the collective unconscious, admits deep and meaningful correlations with the experience of poetic inspiration. When correlated, Jung’s theory of synchronicity and the ideas and working practices of the major English Romantic poets (especially Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley) not only throw deep light on one another, but suggest further possibilities for discovery, transformation, and synthesis. Is it possible, even, that poetic composition may itself embed – and reveal – synchronistic elements? In the course of this exploration, Richard Berengarten will refer extensively to his own experience in composing poems.