Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
Author: Samuel JohnsonLondon
Author: Samuel 1709-1784 JohnsonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021300348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this famous poem, the great English writer Samuel Johnson reflects on the fleeting nature of human desires and achievements. Using the city of London as a backdrop, Johnson evokes the universal themes of mortality, loss, and the search for meaning. This beautiful and thought-provoking work is a must-read for anyone interested in literature and philosophy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
London, and The Vanity of Human Wishes
Author: Samuel JohnsonA Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: Christine GerrardPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118702298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY Edited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Town Eclogues. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).
London
Author: London
Author: Samuel JohnsonLONDON
Author: Samuel 1709-1784 JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781373837547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
London and the Vanity of Human Wishes
Author: I. P. FlemingPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267666966
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Excerpt from London and the Vanity of Human Wishes: With Notes, Historical Biographical,& a Glossary His first literary undertaking was a translation of father lobo's Travels in Abyssinia' but his hopes of success meeting with little but disappointment, he deter mined to launch upon the great ocean of London literary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated by Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379834915
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T054333 Verse. London: printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1749. 28p.; 4°
London, and the Vanity of Human Wishes... - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781297041617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
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