Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel JohnsonComments on Johnson's versatile career as satirist, playwright, moralist, neo-Latinist, elegise, prologuist and writer of drawing-room verse. This reconsideration calls attention to the qualities that so captivated Johnson's 18th-century readers and argues both the historical importance and continuing critical significance of Johnson's poetry. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
Copyright | |
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