...heavenly music seemed to make. III. ON A POET From Dryden. To begin then with Shakespeare. He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets had the...comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily. When he describes anything, you more...

...the phenomenal in his own transcendent consciousness. In Dryden's influential portrait, Shakespeare "had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him" (1:67), or, elsewhere, "Shakespeare had an universal mind, which comprehended all characters and passions"...

...scholarly attention to the works of Shakespeare. In it, DRYDEN wrote of Shakespeare that 'he was a man who of all Modern and perhaps Ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul'. In I 709, Nicholas ROWE produced the first complete edited collection of Shakespeare's plays which...

...versification, his diction, his classical correctness - but that he loved Shakespeare: He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had...him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily . . . Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally...

...of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as contemporary France, Dryden wrote: '[Shakespeare] was the man who of all Modern and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the...any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too', concluding that while he admired Jonson's learning, 'I love Shakespeare'.' The minor poet and satirist...

...Fletcher. The present extract is spoken by Neander. To begin, then, with Shakespeare: he was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had...them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning* give...

...In what is perhaps the most famous passage of the Essay, Neander describes Shakespeare as "The man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul." This preamble ends: "If I would compare [Jonson] with Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more...

...In what is perhaps the most famous passage of the Essay, Neander describes Shakespeare as "The man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most com-prehensive soul." This preamble ends: "If I would compare [Jonson] with Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more...

...from individual plays, we, like Dryden, wonder at the range and power of his mind : ' He was the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.' Coleridge was later to call him 'myriadminded ', in that phrase catching the bafflement that mixes...

...sonline.org.uk/socresonline/4/2/ macmillan mcLachlan.html> Writing about qualitative data Shakespeare . . . was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too (Dryden 1668, quoted in Sansom...