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 55
עמוד 22
... classical and Christian philosophy and morality . Indeed , for Johnson , perhaps the greatest challenge in imitating a classical original lies in transforming the ethos of the original to conform to his own strongly held opinions and ...
... classical and Christian philosophy and morality . Indeed , for Johnson , perhaps the greatest challenge in imitating a classical original lies in transforming the ethos of the original to conform to his own strongly held opinions and ...
עמוד 137
... classical genres , meters , and phrases to new , decidedly unclassical situations , sentiments , and beliefs . In " Ponti Profundis , " for example , Johnson christianizes the classical ode— indeed , transforms it into a hymn - by ...
... classical genres , meters , and phrases to new , decidedly unclassical situations , sentiments , and beliefs . In " Ponti Profundis , " for example , Johnson christianizes the classical ode— indeed , transforms it into a hymn - by ...
עמוד 146
... classical Latin to describe a distressed mind or troubled heart.40 By combining Horatian meter with a simple but passionate invoca- tion of the Christian God , Johnson moves from the world of classical Latin to the prayers and hymns of ...
... classical Latin to describe a distressed mind or troubled heart.40 By combining Horatian meter with a simple but passionate invoca- tion of the Christian God , Johnson moves from the world of classical Latin to the prayers and hymns of ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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