imagination,or from models in literature,but from the living human nature,which he observed in the people around him. F.Most of his characters are compounded of both observation and 5 imagination,of both experience and invention.Fielding insisted on the crucial importance of mixing with people and of personal experience. imagination, or from models in literature, but from the living human nature, which he observed in the people around him. F. Most of his characters are compounded of both observation and imagination, of both experience and invention. Fielding insisted on the crucial importance of mixing with people and of personal experience. 5’