In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term 'willing suspension of disbelief' in 1817 ?
Correct answer: B. Biographia Literaria
- A. Kubla Khan
- B. Biographia Literaria
- C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- D. Christabel
Explanation
Coleridge discussed the phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” in Biographia Literaria, explaining how readers accept supernatural events when poetry gives them imaginative credibility. The other works are poems, not the source of this critical formulation.
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