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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11377707.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-319) and indexes.".
- catalog description "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 drawing-room poems: compliments, parodies, translations, and satires -- Epilogue: Johnson's poetic valediction: "translation of Horace, ode 4.7."".
- catalog extent "335 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Johnson the poet.".
- catalog identifier "0874136768 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Johnson the poet.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark, NJ : University of Delaware Press,".
- catalog relation "Johnson the poet.".
- catalog subject "821/.6 21".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 Poetic works.".
- catalog subject "PR3537.P58 V46 1999".
- catalog subject "Poetry Authorship History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 drawing-room poems: compliments, parodies, translations, and satires -- Epilogue: Johnson's poetic valediction: "translation of Horace, ode 4.7."".
- catalog title "Johnson the poet : the poetic career of Samuel Johnson / David F. Venturo.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".