Dryden's defenses on modern and ancient
M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SEM-1 Name : Bhumi V Joshi Roll No : 3 Enrollment No : PG14101020 Email-id : bhumivjoshi108@gmail.com Paper Name : Literary Theory/Criticism Assignment Topic : Dryden’s defenses on moderns and ancients. Preface : John Dryden is English poet, dramatist And critic who is the most important in literature of the Restoration age. His most important prose work “ Of Dramatic Poesy, An Essay” gives him the reputation as the father of English literary criticism. John Dryden represented the conflicting claims of the two sides as debate among four friends. One of the them favours the ancient over the modern theater. One modernist prefers the French drama where as Dry...