 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...perpetual delight. m****,. 8FIAKSPEARE. Shakspeare is, above all writers, — at least above all i/iodeni writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Mihai Spariosu - Philosophy - 1984 - 336 pages
...we saw earlier in CS Lewis's discussion of the Troilus. Or note Johnson's praise of Shakespeare as "the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life" and, by the same token, his dismissal of "Lycidas" for Milton's failure to give his mourning for Edward... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 532 pages
...above all modern writers, the poet of nature', but this meant that Shakespeare better than any other 'holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life'.53 Nature here is the way things already are, what we recognize in human passions and experience.... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...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 are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Drama - 1995 - 585 pages
...stability of truth. 1 Cf. Whalley (3.278). Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modem writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up...and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | Plato - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 268 pages
...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 to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life' (Preface to Shakespeare, 1759). The legacy of P.'s characterisation... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...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; the...readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. (pp. 61-61) Johnson used the phrase "general nature" for the first time in the Preface, and though... | |
 | Martin Coyle - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...his edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) • Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the...and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world;. . . they are the genuine progeny... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 180 pages
...representations of general nature" in the Preface confirm Johnson's meaning. As the "poet of nature," Shakespeare "holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life," allowing them to "repose on the stability of truth" (62); he "excells in accommodating his sentiments... | |
 | W. S. Hill, Edward M. Burns - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 328 pages
...of Shakespeare's greatest accomplishments. "Shakespeare," he says, "is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the...mirrour of manners and of life. His characters . . . are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will... | |
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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 mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised... 
