Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The term ‘Negative capability’ was coined by john Keats.
Statement II: While analysing the term ‘Dissociation of sensibility’, T.S. Eliot proclaims that hamlet is an artistic failure.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

The correct answer is: Statement I is true, but statement II is false.

Let's analyze each statement step-by-step to understand why this option is correct:

Analysis of Statement I:
The term "Negative capability" was indeed coined by the English Romantic poet John Keats in a letter to his brothers George and Thomas Keats dated December 21, 1817. Keats used the term to describe the capacity of a writer or artist to pursue artistic beauty even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to preferring systematic knowledge or absolute certainty. Therefore, Statement I is true.

Analysis of Statement II:
This statement conflates two distinct critical concepts and essays by T.S. Eliot:
1. The term "Dissociation of sensibility" was coined by Eliot in his 1921 essay "The Metaphysical Poets" to describe the separation of thought from feeling that he believed occurred in English poetry after the mid-seventeenth century.
2. The claim that Shakespeare's play Hamlet is an "artistic failure" was made by Eliot in a completely different essay, titled "Hamlet and His Problems" (1919), where he introduced his famous concept of the "objective correlative."
Eliot did not proclaim Hamlet to be an artistic failure while analyzing "Dissociation of sensibility". Because the statement incorrectly links these two independent ideas as if one occurred during the analysis of the other, Statement II is false.

Consequently, Statement I is true, but Statement II is false.