...been enshrined as a classic. Johnson wrote: The Poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient...and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived the century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Shakespeare is above all writers,...

...been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood'. Shakespeare, Johnson asserts, 'has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit'.78 Having outlived 'personal allusions, local customs, or temporary opinions', the 'effects...

...recognition of an author who, by having "gained and kept the favour of his countrymen," could heroically "assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege...of established fame and prescriptive veneration," as if Shakespeare's canonization were a symbolic gesture much like a ritual of laureation.48 Above...

...of duration and continuance of esteem." Once a great author has outlived his century, he continues: whatever advantages he might once derive from personal...customs, or temporary opinions, have for many years heen lost. . . . The effects of favor and competition are at an end; the tradition of his friendships...

...hundred years, writes Johnson, "the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit," Shakespeare "may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration."45 In according Shakespeare the dignity of an ancient, eighteenthcentury critics perhaps...

...high school if it were done right. CHAPTER 2, 18-33 1 Johnson wrote in the preface to his Shakespeare: "He has long outlived his century, the term commonly...opinions, have for many years been lost; and every topick of merriment or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial life afforded him, now only...

...Latin translation, as was Lewis Theobald and George Steevens.6 Samuel Johnson argued that Shakespeare "may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration".7 Francklin may have also indirectly influenced Richard Farmer, whose An Essay on the Learning...

...which he borrows from Horace (see Epistles 2.1.39) but applies in a strikingly modern way. Shakespeare has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed...temporary opinions, have for many years been lost .... The effects of favour and competition are at an end; the tradition of his friendships and his...

...eighteenth-century editors gave to the playwright: "The poet, whose work I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration."10 Because of the pressure on editors to produce texts for publication, both the Shakespearean...

...hundred years, is, according to Dr. Johnson's estimate, an apt subject for criticism, " for he has outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit." The judgment of that century has swept much that Shelley wrote into the limbo of unread poems; but...