Samuel JohnsonDespite his status as one of the founding fathers of modern English literature, few of Samuel Johnson's works are widely read today. This book suggests that his writings need to be appreciated in the context of contemporary debates over the role and status of literature within a rapidly expanding culture. |
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... imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming himself on the invention and the work of another man ; for he enters into the lists like a new wrestler , to dispute the prize with the former ...
... imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming himself on the invention and the work of another man ; for he enters into the lists like a new wrestler , to dispute the prize with the former ...
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... imitation ' , and , where Juvenal attacked the corruption that he observed in Rome in the second century AD , Johnson identified the same degeneration in eighteenth - cen- tury London . In each poem , a friend of the narrator explains ...
... imitation ' , and , where Juvenal attacked the corruption that he observed in Rome in the second century AD , Johnson identified the same degeneration in eighteenth - cen- tury London . In each poem , a friend of the narrator explains ...
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... Imitation , in part on the grounds of its exclusivity : Such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers . The man of learning may be sometimes surprised and delighted by an unexpected parallel ; but the comparison requires ...
... Imitation , in part on the grounds of its exclusivity : Such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers . The man of learning may be sometimes surprised and delighted by an unexpected parallel ; but the comparison requires ...
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London and The Vanity of Human Wishes | 1 |
The Rambler and the Idler | 25 |
The Dictionary | 39 |
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