Who contributed the term "to see the object as in itself it really is" ?
Correct answer: C. Arnold
- A. Wordsworth
- B. Coleridge
- C. Arnold
- D. Goethe
Explanation
Matthew Arnold defined criticism as an effort “to see the object as in itself it really is,” stressing disinterested and accurate judgment. Wordsworth and Coleridge are chiefly associated with theories of poetry, while Goethe is not the source of this formulation.
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