Who called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'?
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Correct answer: D. Samuel Johnson
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Johnson, 'Life of Dryden' (1779): 'Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism', and the Essay of Dramatic Poesy the first regular treatise on writing.
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