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Johnson The Poet Is The First Book To Deal With The Entire Canon Of Samuel Johnson's Poetry, Written Over The Course Of Almost Sixty Years, From 1725 To 1784. It Provides Critical Commentary On Johnson's Long And Versatile Poetic Career - As Novice Poet, Formal Verse Imitator And Satirist, Playwright, Moralist And Closet Theologian, Neo-latinist, Elegist, Prologuist, And Writer Of Impromptu Drawing-room Verse - While Setting His Verse In Eighteenth-century Political, Theological, Moral, And Literary Contexts. Through This Combination Of Close Reading And Contextualized Analysis, The Book Explores Johnson's Complicated Attitude Toward The Prevailing Conventions Of Eighteenth-century Poetics And The Enterprise Of Writing Poetry.--jacket. Introduction: The Poet, His Poems, And Place In The World Of Restoration And Eighteenth-century Poets -- The Young Author -- London, Country Ideology, And The Limits Of Augustan Imitation -- Irene And The Limits Of Neoclassical Drama -- Faith And The Limits Of Reason In The Vanity Of Human Wishes -- The Latin Poems -- The Poetics Of Johnson's Epitaphs And Elegies -- Virtue, Charity, And Defense Of The Vulnerable In Johnson's Theater Prologues -- The

Author

David F. Venturo

Publisher

Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874136760

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities