...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...

...public, for he must not forget the pronouncement of the wisest of eighteenth-century critics that ' by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary...refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours '. Friends, or Chance, may direct him to pieces...

...of Northern and Welsh Poetry deserve praise ; the imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets....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...

...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...refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors." Between ourselves and Woolf 's evocation of...

...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...refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning must finally be decided all claim to poetical honours. The Church-yard abounds with images which find...

...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...

...even with its ambiguities it remains powerful and assured. As Dr Johnson remarked in his Life of Gray, 'by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the ref1nements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must finally be decided all claim to poetical...

...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...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of suhtility and the dogmatism of learning, must finally be decided all claim to poetical honours. The...

...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;...refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. Samuel Johnson (1781) A reading public of three...

...that Johnson called the common reader: as he wrote of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, "by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours." Academic...