Q: Which is hailed as 'The Father of English Criticism' by Dr Johnson?
a) Jonathan Swift
b) John Dryden
c) John Bunyan
d) John Locke
Correct answer: b) John Dryden
John Dryden
John Dryden was a major essayist of the English literary tradition. His works are so praiseworthy that Samuel Johnson. A contemporary of Dryden and himself a major critic called him ‘the father of English criticism” along with commenting that English prose starts with Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Poesy. Dr Johnson has called Dryden the father of English criticism. Dryden can rightly be considered the father of English criticism because he was the author who first taught us to determine the merits of the writing. There were Sidney and Ben Johnson in the golden of English literature, they have made occasional observations without consistently doing critical work or establishing any critical theory.
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