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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... poem uses Juvenal's third satire as a ' pattern of 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 ...
... poem uses Juvenal's third satire as a ' pattern of 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 ...
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... poem was not written , and would not have been read , as a statement of private , personal sentiments . It was an exercise in public , political rhetoric . The London from which Johnson's character Thales retreats is constructed as a ...
... poem was not written , and would not have been read , as a statement of private , personal sentiments . It was an exercise in public , political rhetoric . The London from which Johnson's character Thales retreats is constructed as a ...
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... poem is not a general critique of government , its attitude to trade and consumption and its relations with foreign powers . Rather ' it is for Johnson another act of professional identification , mixing non - feudal fealty to a patron ...
... poem is not a general critique of government , its attitude to trade and consumption and its relations with foreign powers . Rather ' it is for Johnson another act of professional identification , mixing non - feudal fealty to a patron ...
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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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