Match List I with List II:
| List I: Concept | List II: Critic |
|---|---|
| A. Negative capability | I. Matthew Arnold |
| B. Sweetness and light | II. S. T. Coleridge |
| C. Esemplastic | III. T. S. Eliot |
| D. Dissociation of sensibility | IV. John Keats |
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Correct answer: D. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
Keats's letter of December 1817; Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (after Swift); Coleridge's coinage for the unifying imagination (Biographia, ch. 10); Eliot's 'The Metaphysical Poets' (1921).
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