Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel JohnsonUniversity of Delaware Press, 1999 - 335 עמודים Comments on Johnson's versatile career as satirist, playwright, moralist, neo-Latinist, elegise, prologuist and writer of drawing-room verse. This reconsideration calls attention to the qualities that so captivated Johnson's 18th-century readers and argues both the historical importance and continuing critical significance of Johnson's poetry. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 54
עמוד 164
... ( Dictionary ) -unlike some practitioners of his profession ; and " sincere , " " Honest ; undissembling ; uncorrupt " ( Dictionary ) , the friend of friendless wretches . Levet is a man , then , that the world can ill afford to lose ...
... ( Dictionary ) -unlike some practitioners of his profession ; and " sincere , " " Honest ; undissembling ; uncorrupt " ( Dictionary ) , the friend of friendless wretches . Levet is a man , then , that the world can ill afford to lose ...
עמוד 204
... Dictionary . His mind was less on the stretch in doing the one than the other . Besides ; composing a Dictionary requires books and a desk : you can make a poem walking in the fields , or lying in bed . " 2 One can thus make a strong ...
... Dictionary . His mind was less on the stretch in doing the one than the other . Besides ; composing a Dictionary requires books and a desk : you can make a poem walking in the fields , or lying in bed . " 2 One can thus make a strong ...
עמוד 293
... Dictionary Johnson , 57–70 . Also see Bate , Samuel Johnson , 253-54 . 20. Clifford , Dictionary Johnson , 57 , 70 . 21. Johnson quotes Newton's comments on Elizabeth Foster in the postscript to a preface he ghostwrote for William ...
... Dictionary Johnson , 57–70 . Also see Bate , Samuel Johnson , 253-54 . 20. Clifford , Dictionary Johnson , 57 , 70 . 21. Johnson quotes Newton's comments on Elizabeth Foster in the postscript to a preface he ghostwrote for William ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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Aeneid Alexander Pope ANONYMOUS Aspasia audience Augustan ballad Bate Bolingbroke Boswell Cambridge career chapter Charles Christian Clarendon Press classical contrast couplets critical David Garrick Death of Dr Demetrius Dictionary Drama Dryden edition eighteenth-century elegiac English Epicurean epitaphs epitaphs and elegies Essay faith fideism Garrick Gentleman's Magazine Greek History Horace Horace's Ode Horatian Human Wishes Ibid imitation Irene John Dryden Johnson wrote Johnson's Latin Johnson's poem Johnsonian Juvenal Latin poems Levet Lichfield Lichfield Grammar School literary Lives London Mahomet ment metaphor mihi Milton mind moral Nisus nunc O. B. Hardison Oxford PALLADAS Paradise Lost parody passions Paul Fussell play playwright poetic political Pope Pope's praise prayers Prologue Rambler reader religious rhetorical Robert Levet Samuel Johnson Satire sentiments speaker stanza Stoic Thales theater thee thou tibi tion translation University Press Vanity of Human verse virtue vitae Walpole Warton's Weinbrot Wolsey writing written Yale