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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Finally , the poet advises his readers to be satisfied with what they are , and neither to fear nor long for death . English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , Ben Jonson , Herrick , and Pope , uttered some of these ...
Finally , the poet advises his readers to be satisfied with what they are , and neither to fear nor long for death . English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , Ben Jonson , Herrick , and Pope , uttered some of these ...
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N Martial addresses Classicus , telling him that he rejects topsy - turvy verses ; sodomite poems in the manner of the Alexandrian poet Sotades , poems which are to be read backwards ( palindromes ? ) ; echoic verse ; and " voluptuous ...
N Martial addresses Classicus , telling him that he rejects topsy - turvy verses ; sodomite poems in the manner of the Alexandrian poet Sotades , poems which are to be read backwards ( palindromes ? ) ; echoic verse ; and " voluptuous ...
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Martial's friend Caecilius apparently expected witty epigrams from the poet on lifeless themes of his own choosing . The poet tells him that he can't expect the honey of Hybla or Hymettia , even from a Cecropian bee if this bee must ...
Martial's friend Caecilius apparently expected witty epigrams from the poet on lifeless themes of his own choosing . The poet tells him that he can't expect the honey of Hybla or Hymettia , even from a Cecropian bee if this bee must ...
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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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