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 170
... audience . It was a well - known pleasure of eighteenth - century theater audiences to hiss down new plays . The chief purpose of most theater prologues was , according to Mary E. Knapp , “ to cajole the audience into a pleasant frame ...
... audience . It was a well - known pleasure of eighteenth - century theater audiences to hiss down new plays . The chief purpose of most theater prologues was , according to Mary E. Knapp , “ to cajole the audience into a pleasant frame ...
עמוד 181
... audience could , by exercising its critical judgment , bring about a " Restoration " of sorts which would save the theater from peril and bring it back to life . Should the audience demand plays which reflect " Nature , " that is ...
... audience could , by exercising its critical judgment , bring about a " Restoration " of sorts which would save the theater from peril and bring it back to life . Should the audience demand plays which reflect " Nature , " that is ...
עמוד 184
... audience : " The bard may supplicate , but cannot bribe " ( line 26 ) . With this distinction in mind , Johnson concludes the poem by appealing to the fairness and honesty of the theater audience : Yet judg'd by those , whose voices ne ...
... audience : " The bard may supplicate , but cannot bribe " ( line 26 ) . With this distinction in mind , Johnson concludes the poem by appealing to the fairness and honesty of the theater audience : Yet judg'd by those , whose voices ne ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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