"Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will", is a statement by______________?
Correct answer: B. Shelley
- A. Wordsworth
- B. Shelley
- C. Coleridge
- D. Arnold
Explanation
The statement comes from Percy Bysshe Shelley's *A Defence of Poetry*, where he distinguishes poetic inspiration from deliberate reasoning. Coleridge also wrote extensively about imagination, but this wording is Shelley's.
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