Statement I: Keats coined 'negative capability' in a letter of 1817. Statement II: Eliot introduced 'dissociation of sensibility' in 'Hamlet and His Problems'.
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Correct answer: C. Statement I is true but Statement II is false
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Keats's letter to his brothers (December 1817). 'Dissociation of sensibility' is from 'The Metaphysical Poets' (1921); 'Hamlet and His Problems' (1919) gives the 'objective correlative'.
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