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Pagina x
Critics have pointed out again and again that it is out of scale with the rest, giving
far too much importance to a minor ... This is the sort of error that a certain kind of
criticism is eager to fall upon; but, after all, a footnote will set it right at once.
Critics have pointed out again and again that it is out of scale with the rest, giving
far too much importance to a minor ... This is the sort of error that a certain kind of
criticism is eager to fall upon; but, after all, a footnote will set it right at once.
Pagina xiii
Poetry and criticism, to begin with, were to 'tend to the promotion of piety' : here,
as so often elsewhere, we have the old conflict between art and morals
unflinchingly faced, and art handed over, scrip and scrippage, into the service of
morality.
Poetry and criticism, to begin with, were to 'tend to the promotion of piety' : here,
as so often elsewhere, we have the old conflict between art and morals
unflinchingly faced, and art handed over, scrip and scrippage, into the service of
morality.
Pagina 288
The dialogue on the Drama was one of his first essays of criticism, written when
he was yet a timorous candidate for reputation, and therefore laboured with that
diligence which he might allow himself somewhat to remit, when his name gave ...
The dialogue on the Drama was one of his first essays of criticism, written when
he was yet a timorous candidate for reputation, and therefore laboured with that
diligence which he might allow himself somewhat to remit, when his name gave ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 van The world's classics |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Uitgever | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Pennsylvania State University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 6 juli 2011 |
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