Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in CriticismPrem Nath This volume of criticism seeks to refresh discussion of Samuel Johnson. |
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... Poets , Vol . II , p . 216 ) Johnson rates Pope's Messiah above Virgil's Eclogue IV ( Pollio ) , apparently on the same grounds as Dubius denigrates this poem of Virgil's in Adventurer 92 , namely that the subject matter is unworthy of ...
... Poets , Vol . II , p . 216 ) Johnson rates Pope's Messiah above Virgil's Eclogue IV ( Pollio ) , apparently on the same grounds as Dubius denigrates this poem of Virgil's in Adventurer 92 , namely that the subject matter is unworthy of ...
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... poem . For Johnson's " first " biographer , William Shaw , " the expletive does in the last line of the poem [ " And makes the happiness she does not find " ] , and in the most important place in that line , makes a most lame and ...
... poem . For Johnson's " first " biographer , William Shaw , " the expletive does in the last line of the poem [ " And makes the happiness she does not find " ] , and in the most important place in that line , makes a most lame and ...
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... poem once again . Certainly it would be foolish to suppose that a new argument could endow the poem with the power to provide existential consolation to those who cannot adopt ― or , as Damrosch says , " share " -the perspective upon ...
... poem once again . Certainly it would be foolish to suppose that a new argument could endow the poem with the power to provide existential consolation to those who cannot adopt ― or , as Damrosch says , " share " -the perspective upon ...
Contents
Johnson and Critical Expectation | 13 |
Samuel Johnsons Ambivalent View of Classical Pastoral | 31 |
Johnsons Historical Reviews | 63 |
Copyright | |
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