In Rossetti, the forced personifications may be:

1. A. an incidental defect of poetic quality
2. B. examples of madness of thought
3. C. an exaggerated concretisation of things
4. D. a divinely inspired poetic expression

Explanation

The 'defect of its quality' (A), a 'forced and almost grotesque materialising of abstractions' (C).

Note: Passage II is from Walter Pater's essay 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti' (Appreciations, 1889), summarised here. Pater recalls Plato's view of poetry as one of the higher forms of 'divine mania'. He grants that poetry may have 'a mere insanity incidental to it', the 'defect of its quality', which in Rossetti appears as a forced and almost grotesque materialising of abstractions in his personifications. He compares this with Dante's bondage to the scholastic realism of the Middle Ages.