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 90
עמוד 41
... death . More commonly , the Odes temper the fact of this inevitability by urging the reader to enjoy the pleasures of life , however fleeting . Not so 2.14 : in this poem , those pleasures , even life itself , are depicted as painfully ...
... death . More commonly , the Odes temper the fact of this inevitability by urging the reader to enjoy the pleasures of life , however fleeting . Not so 2.14 : in this poem , those pleasures , even life itself , are depicted as painfully ...
עמוד 122
... death : But did not Chance at length her Error mend ? Did no subverted Empire mark his End ? Did rival Monarchs give the fatal Wound ? Or hostile Millions press him to the Ground ? ( lines 215-18 ) The reader's questions presuppose that ...
... death : But did not Chance at length her Error mend ? Did no subverted Empire mark his End ? Did rival Monarchs give the fatal Wound ? Or hostile Millions press him to the Ground ? ( lines 215-18 ) The reader's questions presuppose that ...
עמוד 163
... Death of Dr. Robert Levet " presents it as a convict's sentence to toil in the mines . Throughout the elegy , we are confronted with images of stifling enclosure " Hope's delusive mine , " " the grave , " and " misery's dark- est ...
... Death of Dr. Robert Levet " presents it as a convict's sentence to toil in the mines . Throughout the elegy , we are confronted with images of stifling enclosure " Hope's delusive mine , " " the grave , " and " misery's dark- est ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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ANONYMOUS audience beauty become begins Boswell calls Cambridge career century chapter Charles Christian classical closing contrast critical dangers death Dictionary Dryden early edition eighteenth-century elegy English epitaphs Essay example faith fall fear follow give History hope Horace's Human Wishes imitation Irene John Juvenal's kind King language late later Latin learned Letters Levet lies literary Lives London means mind moral nature never notes opening Opposition original Oxford passions perhaps play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's praise prayers probably Prologue published reader reason religious remain rhetorical Robert Samuel Johnson Satire seems speaker stanza Studies success Thales things Thomas thou thought tion translation turn University Press Vanity of Human verse virtue writing written wrote York young