Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 5 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 5 of 5

It is the same with literature. Thousands who have no spark of the genius of Dryden or Wordsworth, do to Dryden the justice which has never been done by Wordsworth, and to Wordsworth the justice which, we suspect, would never have been done by Dryden. Gray, Johnson, Richardson, Fielding, are all highly esteemed by the great body of intelligent and well-informed men. But Gray could see no merit in Rasselas and Johnson could see no merit in the Bard. Fielding thought Richardson a solemn prig; and Richardson perpetually expressed contempt and disgust for Fieldin 's lowness.

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