An Elizabethan Puritan critic denounced the poets as 'fathers of lies','schools of abuse' and'caterpillars of a commonwealth'. Mark him out from the following crities________________?
Correct answer: C. Stephen Gosson
- A. William Tyndale
- B. Roger Ascham
- C. Stephen Gosson
- D. Henry Howard
Explanation
Stephen Gosson was an Elizabethan Puritan critic who attacked poetry in The Schoole of Abuse, calling poets 'fathers of lies' and 'schools of abuse.' Roger Ascham also criticised some poetry, but these exact denunciations belong to Gosson.
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