Which of the following statements are NOT relevant to Coleridge's Biographia Literaria?

1. A. The first volume recounts his friendship with Robert Southey and William Blake.
2. B. A later edition (1847) carried notes by his daughter Sara.
3. C. It is a two-volume work.
4. D. It discusses the difference between fancy and imagination.
5. E. The first volume acknowledges Aristotle and Plato as his chief teachers.

1. A(A) and (B) only
2. B(B) and (C) only
3. C(A) and (E) only
4. D(D) and (E) only

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Correct answer: C. (A) and (E) only

Explanation

Biographia Literaria (1817, two volumes) centres on Coleridge's partnership with Wordsworth, and its philosophical debts are to Kant, Schelling and Hartley. Chapter 13 separates primary and secondary imagination from fancy, and Sara Coleridge edited the 1847 edition.