Match List I with List II
| List I |
List II |
| A) Egotistical Sublime |
I Matthew Arnold |
| B) Willing Suspension of Disbelief |
II Joseph Addison |
| C) Touchstone |
III John Keats |
| D) Pleasures of the Imagination |
IV Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer :
(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
Solution :
The correct answer is (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II).
Let us break down the literary concepts and match them with their respective authors step-by-step:
1. (A) Egotistical Sublime matches with (III) John Keats
The term "egotistical sublime" was coined by the Romantic poet John Keats in a letter to Richard Woodhouse in 1818. Keats used it to describe the distinctive poetic style of William Wordsworth. Keats contrasted Wordsworth's self-centered, subjective focus (where the poet's own ego and mind dominate the subject matter) with his own concept of "Negative Capability," where a poet is capable of being in uncertainties and doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
2. (B) Willing Suspension of Disbelief matches with (IV) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This famous phrase was introduced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his work Biographia Literaria (1817). It refers to the willingness of a reader or viewer to temporarily accept the premises of a story, even if they are fantastic or unrealistic, for the sake of enjoying the narrative or experiencing poetic truth.
3. (C) Touchstone matches with (I) Matthew Arnold
The "touchstone method" is a comparative method of literary criticism introduced by Matthew Arnold in his essay "The Study of Poetry" (1880). Arnold suggested that in order to judge the high quality of poetry, critics should compare it against selected masterpieces of great writers (such as Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton) which serve as "touchstones."
4. (D) Pleasures of the Imagination matches with (II) Joseph Addison
"The Pleasures of the Imagination" is a series of highly influential essays written by Joseph Addison, published in The Spectator in 1712 (issues 411 to 421). In these essays, Addison explores the psychology of aesthetic appreciation, distinguishing between primary pleasures (derived from the direct objects of sight) and secondary pleasures (derived from ideas and memories of those objects).
By matching each item, we get:
A -> III
B -> IV
C -> I
D -> II
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