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 55
עמוד 145
... nature of this stanza - Johnson describes not one , but three successive landscapes which offer no consolation - and by the emphatic rhetorical place- ment of the negative " At non " at the very beginning of the opening line . 33 In a ...
... nature of this stanza - Johnson describes not one , but three successive landscapes which offer no consolation - and by the emphatic rhetorical place- ment of the negative " At non " at the very beginning of the opening line . 33 In a ...
עמוד 154
... nature , must be stripped of all literary pretties , must be brought as close as possible to ' Nature ' if it is to be tolerable at all . Of all traditional poetic genres the elegy - and its nearest neighbour , the epitaph - would seem ...
... nature , must be stripped of all literary pretties , must be brought as close as possible to ' Nature ' if it is to be tolerable at all . Of all traditional poetic genres the elegy - and its nearest neighbour , the epitaph - would seem ...
עמוד 181
... Nature , " that is , " Sentiments or images adapted to nature , or conformable to truth and reality " ( Dictionary ) , and " Sense , " variously defined in the Dictionary as " Understanding , " " Reason , " and " Moral perception ...
... Nature , " that is , " Sentiments or images adapted to nature , or conformable to truth and reality " ( Dictionary ) , and " Sense , " variously defined in the Dictionary as " Understanding , " " Reason , " and " Moral perception ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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