Comprehension Passage

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

Poetry, as a mania - one of Plato's two higher forms of "divine" mania - has, in all its species, a mere insanity incidental to it, the "defect of its quality", into which it may lapse in its moment of weakness; and the insanity which follows a vivid poetic anthropomorphism like that Rossetti may be noted here and there in his work, in a forced and almost grotesque materialising of abstractions, as Dante also became at times a mere subject of the scholastic realism of the Middle Age. 

In Rossetti, the forced personifications may be:

(A) an incidental defect of poetic quality

(B) examples of a madness of thought

(C) an exaggerated concretisation of things

(D) a divinely inspired poetic expression

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

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(A) and (B) Only
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(D) and (C) Only
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(B) and (A) Only
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(C) and (A) Only

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