Samuel JohnsonNorthcote House, 2005 - 100 páginas Despite 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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Liz Bellamy. 5 Shakespeare and the Prefaces THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE Rasselas was represented as the product of an intensive burst of inspired creativity , but its composition occurred while Johnson was engaged in a much larger and ...
Liz Bellamy. 5 Shakespeare and the Prefaces THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE Rasselas was represented as the product of an intensive burst of inspired creativity , but its composition occurred while Johnson was engaged in a much larger and ...
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... Shakespeare project as a direct consequence of Johnson's work on the Dictionary , which had given him an intimate acquaintance with Shakespeare's plays . In the late 1740s he had read through the complete works ' and marked out over ...
... Shakespeare project as a direct consequence of Johnson's work on the Dictionary , which had given him an intimate acquaintance with Shakespeare's plays . In the late 1740s he had read through the complete works ' and marked out over ...
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... Shakespeare sought to make its subject available to a wide readership , through the provision of extensive explanatory notes . To the modern reader Johnson's notes may not always seem an aid to interpretation . They frequently manifest ...
... Shakespeare sought to make its subject available to a wide readership , through the provision of extensive explanatory notes . To the modern reader Johnson's notes may not always seem an aid to interpretation . They frequently manifest ...
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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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