 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 sidor
...purpose is to advance our understanding of Shakespeare, at the same time throwing light on the work of the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets had the "largest and most comprehensive soul." John Dryden. Shakespeare's first great critic, said that, and Fraser tries to estimate what he meant.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Burfeind - 2008 - 221 sidor
...100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time "[Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul." -John Dryden (1631-1700), British poet and playwright "If we wish to know the force of human genius... | |
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He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see... 
