Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Johnson's Juvenal
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The Satires of Juvenal
Author: Decio Junio JuvenalThe Complete Poems of Samuel Johnson
Author: Robert D. BrownPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003813054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1023
Book Description
This definitive edition, the first since 1974, presents all the poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), including his play, Irene, with detailed, wide-ranging commentary. It has been expertly edited with attention to the extant manuscripts and all relevant printings. The volume includes the entirety of Johnson’s verse in all its generic diversity: including satire, ode, elegy, verse drama, and verse prayer. The poems are presented in their original spelling and punctuation with extensive commentary on their literary background—biblical, classical, and modern—as well as careful explanation of unusual words, allusions to historical figures, and references to contemporary events that appear in the poems. Proceeding chronologically, this edition also situates Johnson’s verse in the context of his life from his early days in Lichfield to his career as an author in London. Unlike all earlier editions, the present offering provides full translations of all the Latin and Greek poems on which Johnson based so much of his English verse. Correspondingly, it provides the English poems which some of his Latin verse translates. Neither in the presentation of the verse nor in the commentary does this edition assume a command of foreign languages: it aims to be useful for all students of Samuel Johnson’s poetry.
Johnson's Milton
Author: Christine ReesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113948592X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Samuel Johnson is often represented as primarily antagonistic or antipathetic to Milton. Yet his imaginative and intellectual engagement with Milton's life and writing extended across the entire span of his own varied writing career. As essayist, poet, lexicographer, critic and biographer - above all as reader - Johnson developed a controversial, fascinating and productive literary relationship with his powerful predecessor. To understand how Johnson creatively appropriates Milton's texts, how he critically challenges yet also confirms Milton's status, and how he constructs him as a biographical subject, is to deepen the modern reader's understanding of both writers in the context of historical continuity and change. Christine Rees's insightful study will be of interest not only to Milton and Johnson specialists, but to all scholars of early modern literary history and biography.
Satires
Author: JuvenalDr. Johnson's Satires. London (in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal), and the Vanity of Human Wishes (in Imitation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal). With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and a Glossary by I. P. Fleming
Author: Decimus Junius JUVENALISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Aspects of Samuel Johnson
Author: Howard D. WeinbrotPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Howard D. Weinbrot's Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics collects earlier and new essays on Johnson's varied achievements in lexicography, poetry, narrative, and prose style. It considers Johnson's uses of the general and the particular as they relate to the reader's role in the creative process, his complex approach to the concept of literary genre, and his resolutely in-human view of skepticism.
A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake
Author: David WomersleyPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631212850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. The Companion is composed of over fifty contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also, however, gives researchers and faculty the opportunity to update their acquaintance with new critical and scholarly work. The volume meets the needs of an intellectual world increasingly given over to inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study by covering philosophical, political, cultural and historical writing, as well as literary writing. Unlike other similar volumes, the main body of the Companion consists of readings of individual texts, both those commonly and less commonly studied.
The Satires
Author: Juvenal,Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199540667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was the greatest satirist of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses, and follies of the big city have been admired and used by many English writers. His writings here (titles supplied by translator) range from "Hypocritical perverts" and "The woes of a gigolo" to "A case of cannibalism."
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
Author: David HopkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199219818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 749
Book Description
"The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.