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Which of the following statements accurately represents the literary contributions and descriptions of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's works?
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- 1The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a five-part narrative poem where the mariner shoots a nightingale, leading to a spiritual crisis where the ship becomes as idle as a 'painted ship upon a painted ocean'.
- 2In Biographia Literaria, Coleridge argued that Fancy and Imagination are identical mental faculties and defined Primary Imagination as the poet's unique ability to reshape reality into art.
- 3The Pantisocracy scheme was a utopian plan developed by Coleridge and William Wordsworth to establish an egalitarian community in London where private ownership was mandatory.
- 4Coleridge coined the term 'Esemplastic' for the shaping power of imagination, defined the 'willing suspension of disbelief', and featured an epigraph from 'The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens' in 'Dejection: An Ode'.✓
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Coleridge coined the term 'Esemplastic' for the shaping power of imagination, defined the 'willing suspension of disbelief', and featured an epigraph from 'The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens' in 'Dejection: An Ode'.
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