 | John Paul Russo - 2005 - 325 str.
...many (not all) individuals with no ideological ax to grind and, above all, by Johnson's common reader: "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 of poetical honours" (Life... | |
 | Patrick Collier - 2006 - 284 str.
...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 honors." Johnson, Woolf writes,... | |
 | William Kupersmith - 2007 - 280 str.
...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...prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds... | |
 | James Raven, Helen Small, Naomi Tadmor - 2007 - 336 str.
...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; for by the common sense of readers uncom1pted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning,... | |
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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... 
