ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy?
A
Coleridge
B
William Wordsworth
C
John Ruskin
D
Schegell
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Both William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge had imperfect agreement about the role of imagination in poetry. In his “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” William Wordsworth constantly emphasized the superior nature of imagination, rejecting reason or intellect.

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