 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pages
...the critic must follow. The first edition of the Prefaces to the English Poets concluded with Gray: 'In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the... | |
 | Murray Friedman - 2005 - 236 pages
...of Dr. Johnson's best-remembered lines, but it's worth repeating, especially in the present context: "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and... | |
 | George Douglas Atkins - 2005 - 196 pages
...pursuit of reading is carried on by private people." She then quotes Johnson, from his Life of Gray. '"I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the... | |
 | Patrick Collier - 2006 - 284 pages
...emphasis added). Woolf celebrates Samuel Johnson's famous valorization of non-professional readers — "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices ... must be finally decided all claim to poetical... | |
 | William Kupersmith - 2007 - 280 pages
...the most famous passage in which Johnson alludes to "the common reader." It is in the Life of Gray: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and dogmatism... | |
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In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to... 
