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 34
עמוד 98
... kind of seizure than an account of falling in love : " Confounded , aw'd , and lost in Admiration , I gaz'd , I trembl'd ; but I could not speak " ( 3.1.64-65 ) . The romantic bombast of these characters differs very little on the sur ...
... kind of seizure than an account of falling in love : " Confounded , aw'd , and lost in Admiration , I gaz'd , I trembl'd ; but I could not speak " ( 3.1.64-65 ) . The romantic bombast of these characters differs very little on the sur ...
עמוד 164
... Kind ; doing good offices " ( Dictionary ) , without any connotations of its secondary meaning , " Importunely forward . " Any such derogatory ambiguity would conflict with Johnson's view of the panegyrical nature of elegy . Levet is ...
... Kind ; doing good offices " ( Dictionary ) , without any connotations of its secondary meaning , " Importunely forward . " Any such derogatory ambiguity would conflict with Johnson's view of the panegyrical nature of elegy . Levet is ...
עמוד 182
... kind , or at least just and thoughtful , treat- ment of a play , at the hands of the audience . In the " Prologue to Irene " ( 1749 ) , for example , he directly challenges the fops to “ be silent ! ” and the wits to " be just ...
... kind , or at least just and thoughtful , treat- ment of a play , at the hands of the audience . In the " Prologue to Irene " ( 1749 ) , for example , he directly challenges the fops to “ be silent ! ” and the wits to " be just ...
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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