Which critic held that poetry contains the same elements as prose, and differs from it in how they are combined and in its purpose?
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Correct answer: B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Explanation
Biographia Literaria, ch. 14: a poem 'contains the same elements as a prose composition; the difference therefore must consist in a different combination of them, in consequence of a different object proposed' — immediate pleasure rather than truth.
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