 | Sidney Beisly - 1864 - 200 pàgines
...of the works of Shakspere, published in 1778, says : — ' Shakspere is above all writers, at least all modern writers, the poet of nature, the poet that...readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. Other poets display cabinets of precious rarities, minutely finished, wrought into shape, and polished... | |
 | John Drakakis, Terence Hawkes - 1985 - 324 pàgines
...faithful and exact depiction. Its exercise, he says, ensures that Shakespeare stands above all writers as 'the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life' (Johnson 1969: 59). To this day, that remains, in general terms, the grounding claim popularly made... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pàgines
...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...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 - 1995 - 585 pàgines
...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 to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Plato - 1996 - 268 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 mirrour of manners and of life. (pp. 61-61) Johnson used the phrase "general nature" for the first... | |
 | Martin Coyle - 1999 - 196 pàgines
...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 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 pàgines
...—Othello (5.2.343-48) Samuel Johnson was persuaded that "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the...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... | |
 | W. S. Hill, Edward M. Burns - 2000 - 328 pàgines
...of Shakespeare's greatest accomplishments. "Shakespeare," he says, "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 the genuine progeny of common humanity, such... | |
 | Martha Kleinhans - 2001 - 180 pàgines
...1741 bis 1785, Berlin: Schmidt Verlag 1982, 98-100, 100. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature, —...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... | |
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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. 
