Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can.
Statement II: No man has ever been a great poet without being, at the same time, a great critic.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

Correct Answer: The correct option is "Statement I is true, but statement II is false".

Explanation of Statement I:
Statement I asserts that "The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can." This is a famous quote by the renowned Victorian critic and poet Matthew Arnold from his seminal essay "The Study of Poetry" (1880). Arnold argued that in modern times, religion and philosophy would be replaced by poetry, which has the unique capacity to interpret life for us, console us, and sustain us. Thus, Statement I is historically and critically accurate.

Explanation of Statement II:
Statement II states that "No man has ever been a great poet without being, at the same time, a great critic." This is a well-known assertion made by the Romantic poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his work Biographia Literaria (1817). In the context of literary criticism, while Coleridge proposed this as an ideal view of a great poet's self-awareness and analytical capability, it is not universally accepted as an absolute truth or a general rule in literary history. Many celebrated poets are not considered major or formal critics. Thus, in the context of standard literary evaluations and the pairing of these two specific critical statements, Statement II is classified as false.