Motto, Context, Essay: The Classical Background of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer EssaysA helpful reference guide to the mottoes of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer periodical essays. The author provides the context for each motto Johnson selected and relates the context to the content of the essay to which the motto is affixed. Provides a unique insight into Johnson's way of thinking as as essayist in a specific and detailed fashion. An invaluable aid to students and scholars of Johnson and 18th-century studies in general. |
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Page 36
Johnson means in Rambler 36 to discuss pastoral poetry as a genre , and uses a line and a half out of Homer as a simple pastoral scene , with shepherds and their flocks . Ramblers 36 and 37 are devoted entirely to a discussion of ...
Johnson means in Rambler 36 to discuss pastoral poetry as a genre , and uses a line and a half out of Homer as a simple pastoral scene , with shepherds and their flocks . Ramblers 36 and 37 are devoted entirely to a discussion of ...
Page 92
He asks the Muse to seek a lighter mood . Johnson's discussion of sound and sense in Milton's poetry went on for several issues , as has already been noted in the earlier discussion of Ramblers 86 , 88 , and 90 .
He asks the Muse to seek a lighter mood . Johnson's discussion of sound and sense in Milton's poetry went on for several issues , as has already been noted in the earlier discussion of Ramblers 86 , 88 , and 90 .
Page 155
Rambler 156 is an exception , for it is mainly devoted to a discussion of the rules of tragedy . Johnson anticipates here what he argued at some length in Preface to Shakespeare ( 1765 ) , that unity of time demanded by the rule makers ...
Rambler 156 is an exception , for it is mainly devoted to a discussion of the rules of tragedy . Johnson anticipates here what he argued at some length in Preface to Shakespeare ( 1765 ) , that unity of time demanded by the rule makers ...
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| Title | Motto, Context, Essay: The Classical Background of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer Essays |
| Author | Robert C. Olson |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0819142352, 9780819142351 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Essays |
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