 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 σελίδες
...pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature <Gt/136>; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 σελίδες
...which we may suppose to be stamped on Works by the Suffrage of Antiquity, the Writer proceeds thus: 'Shakespeare is above all Writers, at least above all modern Writers, the Poet of Nature...'. [Quotes pp. 57-60, including Dennis's complaint that Menenius in Coriolanus is a buffoon.] Has not... | |
 | Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier - 1996 - 312 σελίδες
...— unlike virtually all prior literary personae - do not seem types of their class and social role. His characters are not modified by the customs of...world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions ... or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions. But Johnson then goes on, in a... | |
 | Plato - 1996 - 268 σελίδες
...eighteenth century. The highest praise that Johnson could lavish on Shakespeare was that he was above all writers 'the poet of nature; the poet that holds up...readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life' (Preface to Shakespeare, 1759). The legacy of P.'s characterisation of the artist's activity in terms... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 σελίδες
...pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all...nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. (pp. 61-61) Johnson used the phrase "general nature" for the first... | |
 | Martin Coyle - 1999 - 196 σελίδες
...the plays: From Samuel Johnson, Preface to his edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) • Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all...nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 σελίδες
...threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe. —Othello (5.2.343-48) Samuel Johnson was persuaded that "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above...up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and life."1 His great tragedies in particular explore the devious vices that wreak havoc on humankind.2... | |
 | Martha Kleinhans - 2001 - 180 σελίδες
...Deutschland, 2 vols, I. Ausgewählte Texte von 1741 bis 1785, Berlin: Schmidt Verlag 1982, 98-100, 100. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all...up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and life.2 Damit wird Shakespeare nicht nur als Norm für die klassisch-romantische Literatur in Deutschland... | |
 | Martha Kleinhans - 2001 - 180 σελίδες
...der Samuel Johnson in seinem berühmten Vorwort zu seiner Shakespeare-Ausgabe von 1765 genannt hatte: Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all...up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and life. 2 Damit wird Shakespeare nicht nur als Norm für die klassisch-romantische Literatur in Deutschland... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 σελίδες
...interpreter of Shakespeare, he has famously expressed a general viewpoint which I readily endorse: "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above...nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters ... are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such... | |
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Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. 
