 | Judith Woolf - Education - 2005 - 188 pages
...begun to admire the one e're you despise the other'.34 Samuel Johnson thought of him as 'the poet who holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life', and commented approvingly, 'In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual;... | |
 | Annette Richards - Music - 2006 - 260 pages
...here comically, only heightens the strength following Johnson's preface that praised Shakespeare as "the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his...readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life." In 1770, Gerstenberg vigorously defended Johnson against German critics as a "Prometheus of the word."... | |
 | Elizabeth Kantor - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 612 pages
...her." In the preface to his edition, Dr. Johnson says, "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." 11. Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Coleridge's lecture on Hamlet,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 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 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,... | |
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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... 
