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 111
... success , but also the likelihood of his dying on the battlefield . “ Eloquence " ( line 18 ) improves the politician's chances of achieving high office , but also the odds that he will fall precipitously— and dangerously - from power ...
... success , but also the likelihood of his dying on the battlefield . “ Eloquence " ( line 18 ) improves the politician's chances of achieving high office , but also the odds that he will fall precipitously— and dangerously - from power ...
עמוד 112
... success of one implies the defeat of another , and at least half the transaction terminates in misery . " 36 Wolsey's wishes for political eminence clash with those of his master , Henry VIII , who has no intention of surrendering his ...
... success of one implies the defeat of another , and at least half the transaction terminates in misery . " 36 Wolsey's wishes for political eminence clash with those of his master , Henry VIII , who has no intention of surrendering his ...
עמוד 120
... Success in this sphere is too tenuous , too temporary for any reasonable individual to count on achieving , or main- taining , it . The aspiring politician , warns the narrator , is subject not only to his own passions ( for example ...
... Success in this sphere is too tenuous , too temporary for any reasonable individual to count on achieving , or main- taining , it . The aspiring politician , warns the narrator , is subject not only to his own passions ( for example ...
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