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 15
עמוד 52
... describes him as " scorn [ ing ] " the natural world of " flow'ry vales and verdant fields " ( line 4 ) . It is as though the peasant , having willfully rejected the pure and honest love of a country maid for the blandishments of an ...
... describes him as " scorn [ ing ] " the natural world of " flow'ry vales and verdant fields " ( line 4 ) . It is as though the peasant , having willfully rejected the pure and honest love of a country maid for the blandishments of an ...
עמוד 141
... describes for his Carthaginian hosts the sack of Troy and his narrow escape from the burning city . Finally , in book 6 , Aeneas descends to the underworld , where he ob- serves many of the denizens of Hades and converses with the shade ...
... describes for his Carthaginian hosts the sack of Troy and his narrow escape from the burning city . Finally , in book 6 , Aeneas descends to the underworld , where he ob- serves many of the denizens of Hades and converses with the shade ...
עמוד 202
... describes him as " Loosen'd from the Minor's tether " ( line 5 ) , as though Lade were a wild animal or a small boy escaped from his leading- strings . Unlike an animal or a small child , however , Lade , having reached his majority ...
... describes him as " Loosen'd from the Minor's tether " ( line 5 ) , as though Lade were a wild animal or a small boy escaped from his leading- strings . Unlike an animal or a small child , however , Lade , having reached his majority ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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