English Language · English Literature

Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: Thomas Chatterton's decision to attribute his poetic works to the fictitious 15th-century monk Thomas Rowley was a calculated effort to provide historical legitimacy and authentication to his pseudo-medieval linguistic style. Reason R: During the Age of Johnson, there was an escalating cultural and literary fascination with antiquarianism and historical folklore, which transitional poets exploited to bridge the gap between Neoclassicism and Romanticism. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: