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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עמוד 157
... praises Sallust for noting that Catiline's nervous pacing , " now quick , and again slow , " reflected his anxiety as he ... praise being therefore inevitably general fixes no impression upon the reader , nor excites any tendency to love ...
... praises Sallust for noting that Catiline's nervous pacing , " now quick , and again slow , " reflected his anxiety as he ... praise being therefore inevitably general fixes no impression upon the reader , nor excites any tendency to love ...
עמוד 168
... praise , and natural lamentation . " 69 The praise is never extravagant , never distinguished by the elaborate conceits of Dryden's " Heroic Stanzas Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness , Oliver ...
... praise , and natural lamentation . " 69 The praise is never extravagant , never distinguished by the elaborate conceits of Dryden's " Heroic Stanzas Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness , Oliver ...
עמוד 194
... praise , the praise of genius , they cannot claim.31 There can be no " genius " in an imitation because , as we have seen Johnson remark about Pope's Horatian imitations , it can never be " original . " 32 Despite his objections to ...
... praise , the praise of genius , they cannot claim.31 There can be no " genius " in an imitation because , as we have seen Johnson remark about Pope's Horatian imitations , it can never be " original . " 32 Despite his objections to ...
תוכן
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