| Virginia Woolf - 1925 - 348 páginas
...AND MRS. BROWN MRS. DALLOWAY ORLANDO A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN The COMMON READER , by VIRGINIA WOOLF "... I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, iinrorruoted bv literary prejudices, after all the THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN University Library Ann... | |
| 1925 - 638 páginas
...almost to bitterness, most of Gray's poetry, admitted the beauty of the "Elegy," and wrote of it that : "In the character of his 'Elegy' I rejoice to concur with the common reader. . . . The 'Churchyard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to... | |
| Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 páginas
...pleasesjeast, it can only be said that a good design was ill directed._J His translations of Northern and Welsh Poetry deserve praise ; the imagery is preserved,...character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the 10 common reader ; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all... | |
| Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 páginas
...Gray Johnson says that he prefers Gray's life to any of his works but then goes on to exempt this one: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical... | |
| Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 páginas
...longer than it is"—and hear the reader joining Johnson in praising Gray's most famous poem—"In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader." We feel with readers the repellent grossness of Pope's and Swift's physical imagery— "such as every... | |
| Clara Claiborne Park - 1991 - 260 páginas
...poems, the Doctor had been ready to praise. Of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard he wrote, "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by...uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical... | |
| John Guillory - 1993 - 422 páginas
...of his panegyric thus functions as symptomatic discourse, as a commentary on the text-milieu itself: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning must finally be decided all claim to poetical... | |
| Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 páginas
...quotes the following appraisal of Gray by Dr. Johnson — certainly no friend of solitary brooding: "In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader . . . The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to... | |
| John Brewer, Susan Staves - 1996 - 646 páginas
...symptomatically to register the full force and resonance of the word "common" in eighteenth-century discourse: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of suhtility and the dogmatism of learning, must finally be decided all claim to poetical... | |
| James Raven, Helen Small, Naomi Tadmor - 1996 - 336 páginas
...Dickens and a pathology of the mid-Victorian reading public Helen Small In the character of [Gray's] Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader;...uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical... | |
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