...her collections of essays, The Common Reader from Dr Johnson, who had written in 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 refinements of subtility and dogmatism...

...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...

...which the criterion of the commonas-general may be felt to suggest also that of the common-as-commoner: "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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...