Identify the critic who made the following comment on Milton: "Milton's taste was as severe, his verse as polished, his method and language as strict as those of the school of Dryden and Pope that grew up when he was old. A literary past and present just met in him, nor did he fail, like all the greatest men, to make a cast into the future."
A
E. M. W. Tillyard
B
George Saintsbury
C
Dr. Samuel Johnson
D
Stopford A. Brooke
Correct Option:
D
Explanation
Stopford A. Brooke made this comment on Milton, praising the severity of his taste, the polish of his verse, and the strictness of his method and language.