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 25
עמוד 144
... speaker to sympathize with the rough and stormy landscape , the speaker instead discovers an incongruity , a discrepancy between the worlds of nature and humanity : At non cavata rupe latescere , Menti nec aegrae montibus aviis Prodest ...
... speaker to sympathize with the rough and stormy landscape , the speaker instead discovers an incongruity , a discrepancy between the worlds of nature and humanity : At non cavata rupe latescere , Menti nec aegrae montibus aviis Prodest ...
עמוד 179
... speaker likens to the pyramids of the Egyptian pharaohs . The " Wits of Charles " II's era ( line 17 ) are also kings , although the tenor of their literary " Reign " ( line 26 ) is not " Cold " ( line 13 ) and monumental , like ...
... speaker likens to the pyramids of the Egyptian pharaohs . The " Wits of Charles " II's era ( line 17 ) are also kings , although the tenor of their literary " Reign " ( line 26 ) is not " Cold " ( line 13 ) and monumental , like ...
עמוד 189
... speaker urges the lady to exer- cise her " sovereign charms " with the " strictest care " ( line 13 ) of a good ... speaker addresses a " rash Youth " ( line 9 ) , warning him of the captivating powers of Miss Carpenter , who is ...
... speaker urges the lady to exer- cise her " sovereign charms " with the " strictest care " ( line 13 ) of a good ... speaker addresses a " rash Youth " ( line 9 ) , warning him of the captivating powers of Miss Carpenter , who is ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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