John Dryden Dryden, John - Essay - eNotes.com.
Regarded by many scholars as the father of modern English poetry and criticism, Dryden dominated literary life in England during the last four decades of the seventeenth century.John Dryden. 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.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.
Dryden puts emphasis on the neoclassical rules. His best-known critical work, An Essay on Dramatic Poesy, partly reflects this tension in Dryden's commitments. Its dialogue form has often been.John Dryden and Criticism In the last half of the 17th century, what little formal criticism or critical theory that had been produced by English writers was scattered and not systematic.
Causes hindering a true judgment. Pride. Imperfect learning. Judging by parts, and not by the whole. Critics in wit, language, versification only. Being too hard to please, or too apt to admire. Partiality—too much love to a sect—to the ancients or moderns. Prejudice or prevention. Singularity.
