my guess would be imperialism
The correct answer is C. John Dryden's critical essays foreshadow the satire of Samuel Johnson.
Dryden's influence as a poet was immense in his own time, and the profound loss that it represented for English literature is evident in the elegies that inspired his deat. His poetry, patriotic, religious and satirical, popularized a type of Hendecasyllable verse that will be the favorite of the eighteenth century, as it was taken as a model by poets such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson
