Select the correct answer.
Which of the following statements describes the relationship of William Blake and Thomas Gray to William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
A.
The first pair were the first to identify themselves as romantics. The second pair critiqued the first and ushered in a new form of romanticism.
B.
The first pair were the first to identify themselves as Enlightenment authors. The second pair were the first to identify themselves as romantics.
C.
The first pair were transitional authors with romantic and neoclasssical characteristics. The second pair were the first to identify themselves as romantics.
D.
The first pair were the first to identify themselves as romantics. The second pair compiled the works of the first pair.