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 24
... give order or structure to their poems . A few examples will suffice . In the " Prologue Spoken By Mr. Garrick at ... gives Johnson the opportunity , in the middle of the poem , to urge his readers not to discount the value of Dr ...
... give order or structure to their poems . A few examples will suffice . In the " Prologue Spoken By Mr. Garrick at ... gives Johnson the opportunity , in the middle of the poem , to urge his readers not to discount the value of Dr ...
עמוד 25
... give rise to a governing conceit in which the competition of people to fulfill their wishes is likened to a battle ... gives the poem extraordinary structural and rhetorical coherence ; it also reinforces Johnson's moral point that , in ...
... give rise to a governing conceit in which the competition of people to fulfill their wishes is likened to a battle ... gives the poem extraordinary structural and rhetorical coherence ; it also reinforces Johnson's moral point that , in ...
עמוד 129
... give yourself . " By dignifying the gifts rather than the act of sacri- fice , Juvenal emphasizes the nobility of ... gives , he gives the best " ( line 356 ) . The first part of the response ( lines 349–56 ) is full of imperatives ...
... give yourself . " By dignifying the gifts rather than the act of sacri- fice , Juvenal emphasizes the nobility of ... gives , he gives the best " ( line 356 ) . The first part of the response ( lines 349–56 ) is full of imperatives ...
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