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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The R.I. Schoolmaster
Author: The Spectator
Author: Joseph AddisonThe Spectator
Author: Sir Richard SteeleJoseph Addison
Author: Paul DavisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192543709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts specially commissioned to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Addison's death in 2019. Almost exclusively known now as the inventor and main author of The Spectator, probably the most widely read and imitated prose work of the eighteenth century, Addison also produced important and influential work across a broad gamut of other literary modes—poems, verse translations, literary criticism, periodical journalism, drama, opera, travel writing. Much of this work is little known nowadays even in specialist academic circles; Addison is often described as the most neglected of the eighteenth century's major writers. This volume is the first collection to address the full range and variety of Addison's career and writings. Its fifteen chapters fall into three groupings: the first set study Addison's work in modes other than the literary periodical (poetry, translation, travel writing, drama); the second set address The Spectator from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (literary-critical, sociological and political, bibliographical); and the final set explore Addison's reception within several cultural spheres (philosophy, horticulture, art history), by individual writers or across larger historical periods (the Romantic age, the Victorian age), and in Britain and Europe, especially France. The volume provides an overdue and appropriately diverse memorial to one of the dominant men of letters of the Georgian era.
The Works of Joseph Addison
Author: Joseph AddisonThe Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Author: Joseph AddisonTranslation and the Poet's Life
Author: Paul DavisPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191559318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Between the Civil War and the early decades of the eighteenth century, English poets of the first rank devoted more of their time and creative energies to translating than they had ever done before or have ever done since. Paul Davis's Translation and the Poet's Life is the first study to range across the entirety of this golden age of poetic translation in England, taking as its organizing principle and object of inquiry the significances of translating itself as a distinctive mode of imaginative conduct. Composed of case studies of the five leading poet-translators of the age - John Denham, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, and Alexander Pope - it explores the part translation played in their lives as poets and thence in modelling 'the poet's life' during what was a period of transition between early-modern and modern constructions of it. The argumentative method of the book is metaphorical. Each chapter explores the impact on the theory and practice of the poet at issue of a metaphor or group of metaphors broadly current in contemporary translation discourse: in particular, figurations of the translator as an exile, as a child, as a code-breaker, and as a slave; and comparisons of translation to friendship, sexual congress, metamorphosis and trade. The majority of these metaphors were wholly or potentially pejorative: translation remained a controversial practice throughout this period, widely depreciated and stigmatized. Turning translator accordingly forced the five major poets considered in Translation and the Poet's Life to undertake strenuous efforts of self-inquiry and self-presentation; to find new answers to questions integral to their understandings of themselves and their standing in their culture: questions about vocation and career, fame and happiness, responsibility and freedom. Translation and the Poet's Life tells the stories of these personal and public remakings.
The Spectator, no. 507-600. The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-Examiner. The Freeholder. Of the Christian religion
Author: Joseph AddisonReport and Documents Relating to the Public Schools of Rhode Island, for 1848
Author: Henry BarnardPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Spectator, no. 507-600. The Guardian. By Nestor Ironside, esq; The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of an argumentation, considered. The late tryal and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Free-holder. Of the Christian religion. The names of the subscribers
Author: Joseph AddisonPublisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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