Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy ?
Correct answer: A. Coleridge
- A. Coleridge
- B. William Wordsworth
- C. John Ruskin
- D. Schegell
Explanation
Coleridge made the influential distinction between imagination, which creatively unifies experience, and fancy, which merely rearranges existing images. He develops this distinction in Biographia Literaria.
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