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 51
עמוד 98
... language of other neoclassical playwrights . In the Life of Addison ( 1779 ) , Johnson criticizes the language of Cato for being " too declamatory , of unaffecting elegance , and chill philosophy , " and in the Life of Thomson ( 1781 ) ...
... language of other neoclassical playwrights . In the Life of Addison ( 1779 ) , Johnson criticizes the language of Cato for being " too declamatory , of unaffecting elegance , and chill philosophy , " and in the Life of Thomson ( 1781 ) ...
עמוד 148
... language is to adorn or embellish . But if God transcends the rhetorical and mimetic bounds of language , then the role of poetry in religion ( unless written with divine inspiration ) is very limited indeed . " Thus , in the Life of ...
... language is to adorn or embellish . But if God transcends the rhetorical and mimetic bounds of language , then the role of poetry in religion ( unless written with divine inspiration ) is very limited indeed . " Thus , in the Life of ...
עמוד 272
... Language , and Time , 125 . 34. Simon Varey , Henry St. John , Viscount Bolingbroke , Twayne's English Author Series ( Boston : Twayne , 1984 ) , 66 . 35. Henry St. John , Viscount Bolingbroke , Works , vol . 2 ( Philadelphia : Carey ...
... Language , and Time , 125 . 34. Simon Varey , Henry St. John , Viscount Bolingbroke , Twayne's English Author Series ( Boston : Twayne , 1984 ) , 66 . 35. Henry St. John , Viscount Bolingbroke , Works , vol . 2 ( Philadelphia : Carey ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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