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Based on the literary career, philosophical contributions, and personal history of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which of the following statements is historically and conceptually accurate?
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- 1Charles Lamb famously described Coleridge as 'the greatest of English critics, and in a sense the last', while T.S. Eliot referred to him in a letter to Wordsworth as a 'Damaged Archangel'.
- 2The famous remark 'To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning' was a critique written by William Hazlitt to describe Coleridge's own lecturing style in London and Bristol.
- 3In his work 'Biographia Literaria', Coleridge defined 'Primary Imagination' as the specific creative faculty used by poets to reshape reality, while 'Secondary Imagination' was defined as the common power of perception shared by all humans.
- 4Coleridge and Robert Southey conceived 'Pantisocracy', a utopian scheme for an egalitarian community on the banks of the Susquehanna River; he also coined the term 'Esemplastic' and is credited with the early use of 'psycho-somatic'.✓
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Coleridge and Robert Southey conceived 'Pantisocracy', a utopian scheme for an egalitarian community on the banks of the Susquehanna River; he also coined the term 'Esemplastic' and is credited with the early use of 'psycho-somatic'.
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