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ABSTRACT: Dryden as the father of English criticism by Dr. Johnson with an emphasis on the author’s style and the criticism is the most important concern in this paper. John Dryden is rightly considered as “the father of English Criticism”.John Dryden was a prolific playwright, creating heroic plays, political plays, operas, heroic tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies; however, he is best remembered for his poetry and criticism, as.After John Donne and John Milton, John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the 17th century. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, he was the greatest playwright. And he has no peer as a writer of prose, especially literary criticism, and as a translator.
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden: An Overview An Essay of Dramatic Poesy gives an explicit account of neo-classical theory of art in general. Dryden is a neoclassic critic, and as such he deals in his criticism with issues of form and morality in drama.John Dryden, (born August 9 (August 19, New Style), 1631, Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England—died May 1 (May 12), 1700, London), English poet, dramatist, and literary critic who so dominated the literary scene of his day that it came to be known as the Age of Dryden. Youth and education. The son of a country gentleman, Dryden grew up in the country.
Literary Critique Of Alexander Pope and John Dryden's Works English Literary Criticism On The Works of Alexander Pope and John Dryden Long before the structuralists ever attempted to define what constituted the proper way of conceptualizing the narrative art, long before the deconstructionists ever wrote about the socially constructed nature of gender, long before the New Historicists.
