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 95
עמוד 17
... poet . While it is true that the two poems Eliot thought justifying Johnson's status as a major poet have re- ceived abundant critical attention , there is no source to which students , scholars , and the informed general reader can ...
... poet . While it is true that the two poems Eliot thought justifying Johnson's status as a major poet have re- ceived abundant critical attention , there is no source to which students , scholars , and the informed general reader can ...
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... poet , whose poems bear the mark of a vivid , vigorous , and original poetic imagination and a unique and powerful moral voice . Johnson's poems exemplify Harold Bloom's definition of the " strong poet . " Johnson at his best was ...
... poet , whose poems bear the mark of a vivid , vigorous , and original poetic imagination and a unique and powerful moral voice . Johnson's poems exemplify Harold Bloom's definition of the " strong poet . " Johnson at his best was ...
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... poet , and he was willing to exercise those powers for the private use and personal pleasure of his friends . In its conclusion , the chapter offers some reasons as to why a poet who wrote with such ease and power all his life did not ...
... poet , and he was willing to exercise those powers for the private use and personal pleasure of his friends . In its conclusion , the chapter offers some reasons as to why a poet who wrote with such ease and power all his life did not ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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