Johnson the poet : the poetic career of Samuel Johnson, David F. Venturo

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-319) and indexes

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Contents: 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."

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