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In his seminal work 'Biographia Literaria' (1817), Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduces a distinction between Primary and Secondary Imagination. Which of the following statements correctly identifies the nature of this distinction?
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- 1Primary Imagination is a state of passive reception of sensory data, while Secondary Imagination is the organic growth of the poetic psyche.
- 2Primary Imagination refers to the 'willing suspension of disbelief', while Secondary Imagination refers to 'motiveless malignity'.
- 3Primary Imagination is the mechanical assembly of images from memory, while Secondary Imagination is the involuntary perception of the external world.
- 4Primary Imagination is the universal human power of perceiving the world, while Secondary Imagination is the poet's creative re-shaping of reality into art.✓
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Primary Imagination is the universal human power of perceiving the world, while Secondary Imagination is the poet's creative re-shaping of reality into art.
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