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 82
... readers trained in the classical languages is capable of appreci- ating the parallels between the imitation and its ancient source . By contrast , Johnson's beloved " common reader ” —who , literate in English but lacking a classical ...
... readers trained in the classical languages is capable of appreci- ating the parallels between the imitation and its ancient source . By contrast , Johnson's beloved " common reader ” —who , literate in English but lacking a classical ...
עמוד 106
... readers toward what he sees as more valuable and worthy goals . Paradoxi- cally , the empiricism of the survey is designed to show the reader the limi- tations of reason and to persuade the reader to join Johnson in a leap of faith at ...
... readers toward what he sees as more valuable and worthy goals . Paradoxi- cally , the empiricism of the survey is designed to show the reader the limi- tations of reason and to persuade the reader to join Johnson in a leap of faith at ...
עמוד 121
... reader , " which helps to " engage us in our own schooling . " 75 Weinbrot makes an excellent point , although he may overestimate the pleasure the reader is supposed to derive from these exchanges . The dialogues , I believe , are ...
... reader , " which helps to " engage us in our own schooling . " 75 Weinbrot makes an excellent point , although he may overestimate the pleasure the reader is supposed to derive from these exchanges . The dialogues , I believe , are ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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