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Q: Which critic used the term "negative capability"?
  • A. T.S. Eliot
  • B. W. B. Yeats
  • C. John Keats
  • D. More than one of the above
  • E. None of the above
Correct Answer: Option C - Keats coined the term negative capability in a letter he wrote to his brothers George and Tom in 1817. Inspired by Shakespeare's work, he describes it as ‘‘being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’’. Hence, option (c) is correct.
C. Keats coined the term negative capability in a letter he wrote to his brothers George and Tom in 1817. Inspired by Shakespeare's work, he describes it as ‘‘being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’’. Hence, option (c) is correct.

Explanations:

Keats coined the term negative capability in a letter he wrote to his brothers George and Tom in 1817. Inspired by Shakespeare's work, he describes it as ‘‘being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’’. Hence, option (c) is correct.