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 35
עמוד 98
... tion ( " A discourse addressed to the passions ; an harangue ; a set speech ; a piece of rhetorick ” —Dictionary ) with dialogue ( “ A conference ; a conversa- tion between two or more , either real or feigned " -Dictionary ) . This con ...
... tion ( " A discourse addressed to the passions ; an harangue ; a set speech ; a piece of rhetorick ” —Dictionary ) with dialogue ( “ A conference ; a conversa- tion between two or more , either real or feigned " -Dictionary ) . This con ...
עמוד 118
... tion " ( line 191 ) was his army . Although this soldier's soldier was loved by his troops , he needlessly fatigued them , as his biographers have noted , with an unrelenting campaign through the harsh winter of 1708-9.62 Ironically ...
... tion " ( line 191 ) was his army . Although this soldier's soldier was loved by his troops , he needlessly fatigued them , as his biographers have noted , with an unrelenting campaign through the harsh winter of 1708-9.62 Ironically ...
עמוד 327
... tion ; Bolingbroke , Henry St. John , viscount ; Court - Country politics ; Hawkins , John ; Imitation , formal verse ; Jacobitism ; Johnson's poetry ; Neo - Harringtonianism ; Opposition politics ; Savage , Richard ; Third Satire ...
... tion ; Bolingbroke , Henry St. John , viscount ; Court - Country politics ; Hawkins , John ; Imitation , formal verse ; Jacobitism ; Johnson's poetry ; Neo - Harringtonianism ; Opposition politics ; Savage , Richard ; Third Satire ...
תוכן
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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