...this, Johnson not only places Shakespeare 'above all writers, at least above all modern writers' as 'the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life', but he goes on to displace the likes of Ben 220 Jonson or Drummond, to argue in a sense that Shakespeare...

...Preface to his 1765 edition of Shakespeare's works. Like the others, Johnson praised Shakespeare as "the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his...readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life." Shakespeare's style was sometimes uneven and flawed, particularly by his love of the quibble, "the...

...also recognized and praised what Montagu calls Shakespeare's justness of imitation', proclaiming him 'the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life'.8 This concept of Shakespeare as the 'poet of nature' (in contrast to Jonson, who was seen as...

...and the mind can only repofe on the liability of truth. Shakefpeare is above all writers, at leait 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 cuitoms of particular places,...

...(Dobson 1992, 1-16). In 1765 Samuel Johnson proclaimed: 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,...

...better than to concur in the judgement of Dr Johnson, and all that is implied in it, that Shakespeare is the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. . . . His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions...

...her." In the preface to his edition, Dr. Johnson says, "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the...readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life." 11. Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Coleridge's lecture on Hamlet, and Keats in a letter to his brothers,...

...here comically, only heightens the strength following Johnson's preface that praised Shakespeare as "the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life." In 1770, Gerstenberg vigorously defended Johnson against German critics...