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. |
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תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 74
עמוד 34
... Pope by contrasting three poems indebted to Virgil's Eclogue 5 , the elegy for Daphnis : ( 1 ) Pope's " Winter " from the Pastorals ( 1709 ) ; ( 2 ) Johnson's schoolboy translation of Mopsus's lament for , and Menalcas's apo- theosis of ...
... Pope by contrasting three poems indebted to Virgil's Eclogue 5 , the elegy for Daphnis : ( 1 ) Pope's " Winter " from the Pastorals ( 1709 ) ; ( 2 ) Johnson's schoolboy translation of Mopsus's lament for , and Menalcas's apo- theosis of ...
עמוד 59
... Pope rewrote nine of Horace's Epistles and Satires , substituting modern examples for the topical references in the origi- nal poems . ' Johnson himself offered his own historical account of the theory and practice of poetic imitation ...
... Pope rewrote nine of Horace's Epistles and Satires , substituting modern examples for the topical references in the origi- nal poems . ' Johnson himself offered his own historical account of the theory and practice of poetic imitation ...
עמוד 81
... Pope attributed to Pope concerning satire : " Pope was not likely to have been ever of [ the ] opinion that the dread of his satire would countervail the love of power or of money . " 100 One hesitates to speculate on what the careers of ...
... Pope attributed to Pope concerning satire : " Pope was not likely to have been ever of [ the ] opinion that the dread of his satire would countervail the love of power or of money . " 100 One hesitates to speculate on what the careers of ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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