 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 pages
...rise from the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of jin author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the 'wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 378 pages
...different forms." XM He explicitly states that "to judge rightly of an author we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them." "• As early as the Observations on Macbeth (1745), Johnson had stated that "in order... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 412 pages
...Johnson's provision in his "Life of Dryden" that "to judge rightly of an author we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them."80 Yet, if even a single work of criticism had so changed perceptions of literature... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 768 pages
...forms.« 129. ebenda (Dryden), S. 411: »...to judge rightly of an author we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.« 130. ebenda, S. 438: »...the irregularity of meter, to which the ears of that age... | |
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To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. 
