Which quotations are correctly matched with their texts?
- A. Poets are 'the right popular philosophers' — An Apology for Poetry
- B. The critic must halt at the frontier of metaphysics — 'The Metaphysical Poets'
- C. 'Frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies' — Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- D. 'For poetry the idea is everything' — 'The Study of Poetry'
- E. A fool might once himself alone expose; now one in verse makes many more in prose — An Essay on Man
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Correct answer: A. A, C and D only
Explanation
B is not from Eliot's 'The Metaphysical Poets', and the couplet in E comes from Pope's An Essay on Criticism, not An Essay on Man.
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