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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 45

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 2 marks · Multiple choice

Which of the following terms are used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his theory of imagination?

  1. Primary imagination, secondary imagination, and fancy
  2. Negative capability, Hellenism, and impersonality
  3. Egotistical sublime, oversoul, and pantheism
  4. Unacknowledged legislation, atheism, and anarchy

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Correct answer: (A) Primary imagination, secondary imagination, and fancy

Explanation

In Biographia Literaria Coleridge divides imagination into primary and secondary and contrasts both with fancy. The other sets belong to Keats, Arnold and Eliot, Wordsworth and Emerson, and Shelley.