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. |
מתוך הספר
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 ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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Aeneid Alexander Pope ANONYMOUS Aspasia audience Augustan ballad Bate Bolingbroke Boswell Cambridge career chapter Charles Christian Clarendon Press classical contrast couplets critical David Garrick Death of Dr Demetrius Dictionary Drama Dryden edition eighteenth-century elegiac English Epicurean epitaphs epitaphs and elegies Essay faith fideism Garrick Gentleman's Magazine Greek History Horace Horace's Ode Horatian Human Wishes Ibid imitation Irene John Dryden Johnson wrote Johnson's Latin Johnson's poem Johnsonian Juvenal Latin poems Levet Lichfield Lichfield Grammar School literary Lives London Mahomet ment metaphor mihi Milton mind moral Nisus nunc O. B. Hardison Oxford PALLADAS Paradise Lost parody passions Paul Fussell play playwright poetic political Pope Pope's praise prayers Prologue Rambler reader religious rhetorical Robert Levet Samuel Johnson Satire sentiments speaker stanza Stoic Thales theater thee thou tibi tion translation University Press Vanity of Human verse virtue vitae Walpole Warton's Weinbrot Wolsey writing written Yale