It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom, or that which is established because it is right from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact”,
The above passage considered to be the death- knell of the neo-classical criticism is attributed to ________
1
John Dryden
2
Alexender Pope
3
Samuel Johnson
4
Joseph Addison