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 153
... elegies , including a few of his finest poems . In addition , over the same period he wrote a sizable body of criti- cism about the epitaph and elegy - enough material to establish the prin- ciples he thought were important to this mode ...
... elegies , including a few of his finest poems . In addition , over the same period he wrote a sizable body of criti- cism about the epitaph and elegy - enough material to establish the prin- ciples he thought were important to this mode ...
עמוד 154
... elegy . Yet fifteen years later Johnson virtually eliminates this distinction when he defines “ elegy ” in the Dictionary as 1. A mournful song . 2. A funeral song . 3. A short poem without points or turns . " While the first two ...
... elegy . Yet fifteen years later Johnson virtually eliminates this distinction when he defines “ elegy ” in the Dictionary as 1. A mournful song . 2. A funeral song . 3. A short poem without points or turns . " While the first two ...
עמוד 157
... elegies , like biographies , be written by a friend or at least by a person with detailed and sympathetic knowledge of the subject . Johnson finds the chief defect of Dryden's elegy Eleonora to be that Dryden confesses that he did not ...
... elegies , like biographies , be written by a friend or at least by a person with detailed and sympathetic knowledge of the subject . Johnson finds the chief defect of Dryden's elegy Eleonora to be that Dryden confesses that he did not ...
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