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 56
... better part of two decades to a mode of poetry better defined by the inter- vening London and Irene . 2 London , " Country " Ideology , and the 56 JOHNSON THE POET.
... better part of two decades to a mode of poetry better defined by the inter- vening London and Irene . 2 London , " Country " Ideology , and the 56 JOHNSON THE POET.
עמוד 141
... better way of life ] , he is echoing lines 564-66 of book 2 of the Aeneid , in which Aeneas , who has just witnessed the murder of Priam , thinks in horror of the possible fate of his own family , then looks about in vain for help from ...
... better way of life ] , he is echoing lines 564-66 of book 2 of the Aeneid , in which Aeneas , who has just witnessed the murder of Priam , thinks in horror of the possible fate of his own family , then looks about in vain for help from ...
עמוד 219
... better way of life ; but I do not find what I should do . Having planned grand schemes , I am forced to know myself better , to confess to an untempered heart and an intellect boasting of itself with empty force — an intellect which ...
... better way of life ; but I do not find what I should do . Having planned grand schemes , I am forced to know myself better , to confess to an untempered heart and an intellect boasting of itself with empty force — an intellect which ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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