Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition." in the context of "Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1781), "The Life of Dryden"." to mean that wisdom is timeless.