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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... tragedy , presenting a moral tale of spiritual faith and constancy , deceit and apostasy , with the good rewarded and the frail punished . In contrast to Johnson's later works , it was slowly and carefully written and pains- takingly ...
... tragedy , presenting a moral tale of spiritual faith and constancy , deceit and apostasy , with the good rewarded and the frail punished . In contrast to Johnson's later works , it was slowly and carefully written and pains- takingly ...
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... Tragedy ' ( 1679 ) , Dryden cites Longinus to provide a trenchant defence of this form of poetic composition : We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming ...
... Tragedy ' ( 1679 ) , Dryden cites Longinus to provide a trenchant defence of this form of poetic composition : We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming ...
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... tragedy and comedy and that these two forms had their own distinct conventions . From this developed the concept of a rigid hierarchy of literary genres and critical strictures that all works should conform to one of the prescribed ...
... tragedy and comedy and that these two forms had their own distinct conventions . From this developed the concept of a rigid hierarchy of literary genres and critical strictures that all works should conform to one of the prescribed ...
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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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