Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in CriticismPrem Nath This volume of criticism seeks to refresh discussion of Samuel Johnson. |
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... hope and fear in relation to his own work as a writer . The openings of some of his most celebrated works testify to this preoccupation . In the first lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes , Johnson urges his own powers of " observation ...
... hope and fear in relation to his own work as a writer . The openings of some of his most celebrated works testify to this preoccupation . In the first lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes , Johnson urges his own powers of " observation ...
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... hope described largely in terms of disappointment : " every revived idea reminds us of a time when something was enjoyed that is now lost , when some hope was yet not blasted , when some purpose had not yet languished into sluggishness ...
... hope described largely in terms of disappointment : " every revived idea reminds us of a time when something was enjoyed that is now lost , when some hope was yet not blasted , when some purpose had not yet languished into sluggishness ...
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Essays in Criticism Prem Nath. that Johnson numbers himself , still , among hope's slaves . Levet , by contrast , is celebrated as a man immune from hope . Johnson represents his old friend's life as being so full of honest and caring ...
Essays in Criticism Prem Nath. that Johnson numbers himself , still , among hope's slaves . Levet , by contrast , is celebrated as a man immune from hope . Johnson represents his old friend's life as being so full of honest and caring ...
Contents
Johnson and Critical Expectation | 13 |
Samuel Johnsons Ambivalent View of Classical Pastoral | 31 |
Johnsons Historical Reviews | 63 |
Copyright | |
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