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 37
עמוד 45
... rhetorical and moral shift until the fifth stanza , re- turning instead in his third stanza to the phrase " indomitaeque morti ” [ in- domitable death ] which resoundingly closes Horace's first stanza : You could not gain a Moments ...
... rhetorical and moral shift until the fifth stanza , re- turning instead in his third stanza to the phrase " indomitaeque morti ” [ in- domitable death ] which resoundingly closes Horace's first stanza : You could not gain a Moments ...
עמוד 132
... rhetorical magnification , the rhetorical embellishments of religious verse are , at best , anticlimactic , and , at worst , ridiculous . This is the gist of Johnson's argument against religious poetry in the Life of Waller . " The ...
... rhetorical magnification , the rhetorical embellishments of religious verse are , at best , anticlimactic , and , at worst , ridiculous . This is the gist of Johnson's argument against religious poetry in the Life of Waller . " The ...
עמוד 148
... rhetorical function of poetical 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 ...
... rhetorical function of poetical 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 ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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Aeneid Alexander Pope ANONYMOUS Aspasia audience Augustan ballad Bate Bolingbroke Boswell Cambridge career chapter Charles Christian Clarendon Press classical contrast couplets critical David Garrick Death of Dr Demetrius Dictionary Drama Dryden edition eighteenth-century elegiac English Epicurean epitaphs epitaphs and elegies Essay faith fideism Garrick Gentleman's Magazine Greek History Horace Horace's Ode Horatian Human Wishes Ibid imitation Irene John Dryden Johnson wrote Johnson's Latin Johnson's poem Johnsonian Juvenal Latin poems Levet Lichfield Lichfield Grammar School literary Lives London Mahomet ment metaphor mihi Milton mind moral Nisus nunc O. B. Hardison Oxford PALLADAS Paradise Lost parody passions Paul Fussell play playwright poetic political Pope Pope's praise prayers Prologue Rambler reader religious rhetorical Robert Levet Samuel Johnson Satire sentiments speaker stanza Stoic Thales theater thee thou tibi tion translation University Press Vanity of Human verse virtue vitae Walpole Warton's Weinbrot Wolsey writing written Yale