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 44
עמוד 22
... turn " late in the poem and then respond in a corrective , antiphonal voice . Such is the case with Johnson's ... turns and rejects the virtues associated with classical self - sufficiency in favor of the Christian virtues of love ...
... turn " late in the poem and then respond in a corrective , antiphonal voice . Such is the case with Johnson's ... turns and rejects the virtues associated with classical self - sufficiency in favor of the Christian virtues of love ...
עמוד 119
... turn the full brunt of their force on Bavaria . Johnson's ironic narrative is faithful to the facts of history : a supposedly weak , inexperienced woman exercising political power for the first time defeated a French - sponsored ...
... turn the full brunt of their force on Bavaria . Johnson's ironic narrative is faithful to the facts of history : a supposedly weak , inexperienced woman exercising political power for the first time defeated a French - sponsored ...
עמוד 154
... turns . " While the first two definitions are essentially descriptive , the third pre- scribes Johnson's personal ... Turn " as " The manner of adjusting the words of a sentence . " Johnson frowns on exhibitions of poetic wit , which ...
... turns . " While the first two definitions are essentially descriptive , the third pre- scribes Johnson's personal ... Turn " as " The manner of adjusting the words of a sentence . " Johnson frowns on exhibitions of poetic wit , which ...
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