History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2022 History (Shift-I)
Who said, 'As works of the imagination, the historian's work and the novelist's do not differ. Where they do differ is that the historian's picture is meant to be true'?
AR.G. Collingwood ✓ Correct
BWill Durant
CE.H. Carr
DWilliam H. Dray
Correct answer: (A) R.G. Collingwood — It was R.G. Collingwood, so the answer is R.G. Collingwood.
Explanation
★It was R.G. Collingwood, so the answer is R.G. Collingwood.
★R.G. Collingwood said these words comparing the historian's work to the novelist's.
★He held that the historian's picture, unlike the novelist's, is meant to be true.
★R.G. Collingwood was a great historian and philosopher from England.
★He is best known for his work The Principles of Art of 1938.
★He is also known for the posthumously published work The Idea of History.
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