I read *Water and Dreams*, a book said to be where Bachelard’s ideas on the "matter imagination" based on the four elements appear most clearly and revelatorily, but I am not sure if I understood even 30% of it. It was the first book I read among Bachelard’s representative works—*The Psychoanalysis of Fire*, *Water and Dreams*, *Air and Dreams*, *Reveries of Earth and Will*, and *Reveries of Earth and Rest*—which are hailed as a Copernican revolution in the study of literary imagination. If