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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עמוד 66
... Thales a " true Briton , " his young friend further invokes the sturdy nationalism of Elizabeth's later years ; Thales is thus neither a frenchified courtier nor a Hanoverian like George II , who seemed to his critics more concerned ...
... Thales a " true Briton , " his young friend further invokes the sturdy nationalism of Elizabeth's later years ; Thales is thus neither a frenchified courtier nor a Hanoverian like George II , who seemed to his critics more concerned ...
עמוד 72
... Thales ' attack on the French is consistent with , and necessary to , Johnson's argument . The French are the antithesis of Thales . If he is inflexible and unbending in his rectitude , they are " supple " and conniving , willing to ...
... Thales ' attack on the French is consistent with , and necessary to , Johnson's argument . The French are the antithesis of Thales . If he is inflexible and unbending in his rectitude , they are " supple " and conniving , willing to ...
עמוד 77
... Thales ' ideological and moral convictions . Thales seems to believe that London is wholly , irre- mediably corrupt and that the Walpole administration is the wellspring of that corruption . Juvenal's Umbricius neither makes such a ...
... Thales ' ideological and moral convictions . Thales seems to believe that London is wholly , irre- mediably corrupt and that the Walpole administration is the wellspring of that corruption . Juvenal's Umbricius neither makes such a ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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