 | Stefan Collini - 1999 - 362 страници
...isolate the issue to be discussed here. In his Lives of the English Poets, Dr Johnson famously declared: 'I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the... | |
 | W. S. Hillis, Edward Burns, Peter Shillingsburg - 1999 - 306 страници
...Johnson is clearly distinguishing himself from the "common reader" when he says in his "Life" of Gray: "In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 страници
...any poem, would seem still to govern the judgements of most modern readers; as Johnson wrote of the Elegy: 'I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 2001 - 318 страници
...these back-handed sentences are recast in the high praises of the "Elegy" which close the Life of Gray. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilry and the... | |
 | Joan Bennett - 1945 - 198 страници
...her collections of essays, The Common Reader from Dr Johnson, who had written in his Life of Gray: "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all refinements of subtility and dogmatism... | |
 | Christopher J. Knight - 2003 - 534 страници
...on several fronts. It was the reader to whom Dr Johnson, in his 'Life of Gray,' famously appealed: 'I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 страници
...the critic must follow. The first edition of the Prefaces to the English Poets concluded with Gray: 'In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 страници
...which the criterion of the commonas-general may be felt to suggest also that of the common-as-commoner: "In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the... | |
 | Murray Friedman - 2005 - 236 страници
...of Dr. Johnson's best-remembered lines, but it's worth repeating, especially in the present context: "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and... | |
 | George Douglas Atkins - 2005 - 196 страници
...pursuit of reading is carried on by private people." She then quotes Johnson, from his Life of Gray. '"I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the... | |
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In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to... 
