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 56
עמוד 18
... seems to have chosen not to exercise it very often . For example , Johnson himself once told Boswell that he had all of Juvenal's satires " in his head , " which suggests that he could have written them all out in poetic form quite ...
... seems to have chosen not to exercise it very often . For example , Johnson himself once told Boswell that he had all of Juvenal's satires " in his head , " which suggests that he could have written them all out in poetic form quite ...
עמוד 22
... seems to have been the primary object of Alexander Pope in his splendid Horatian imitations of the 1730s , Johnson ... seem to have troubled Pope that Horace may have embraced Stoic or Epicurean ideals no longer widely current in ...
... seems to have been the primary object of Alexander Pope in his splendid Horatian imitations of the 1730s , Johnson ... seem to have troubled Pope that Horace may have embraced Stoic or Epicurean ideals no longer widely current in ...
עמוד 98
... seems acutely aware of the comedy latent in the grand gestures of such heroes as Maximin or Almanzor . Dryden's chief effort is to entertain , and he isn't above laughing along with the audience at the extravagance of his characters ...
... seems acutely aware of the comedy latent in the grand gestures of such heroes as Maximin or Almanzor . Dryden's chief effort is to entertain , and he isn't above laughing along with the audience at the extravagance of his characters ...
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