ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term ’willing suspension of disbelief’ in 1817?
A
Kubla Khan
B
Biographia Literaria
C
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
D
Christabel
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -English poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge is widely credited with introducing “suspension of disbelief” in his 1817 text Biographia Literaria.

Detailed explanation-2: -The quotation books have the coiner-the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his 1817 “Biographia Literaria”: “That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Willing suspension of disbelief is a formula named as such in English by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge to justify the use of fantastic or non-realistic elements in literature. Coleridge coined the phrase in his Biographia Literaria, published in 1817.

Detailed explanation-4: -Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the term “suspension of disbelief” in 1817, but almost two centuries would lapse before we could infer how the brain might support this puzzling phenomenon.

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