Samuel JohnsonNorthcote House, 2005 - 100 pagina's Despite his status as one of the founding fathers of modern English literature, few of Samuel Johnson's works are widely read today. This book suggests that his writings need to be appreciated in the context of contemporary debates over the role and status of literature within a rapidly expanding culture. |
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Pagina 13
... Dryden distinguished between three types of translation that he termed metaphrase , paraphrase , and imita- tion . Metaphrase was the most literal . It conveyed the direct meaning of the words of the original , but in doing so often ...
... Dryden distinguished between three types of translation that he termed metaphrase , paraphrase , and imita- tion . Metaphrase was the most literal . It conveyed the direct meaning of the words of the original , but in doing so often ...
Pagina 14
... Dryden principally exacts from the translator . He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in such a dress of diction as the author would have given them , had his language been English . ( Greene , 723-4 ) Robert DeMaria has connected ...
... Dryden principally exacts from the translator . He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in such a dress of diction as the author would have given them , had his language been English . ( Greene , 723-4 ) Robert DeMaria has connected ...
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... Dryden . One of his most famous and influential literary verdicts occurs in his first preface , the ' Life of Cowley ' , where Johnson uses Dryden's term ' Metaphysical Poets ' to refer to the ' race of writers ' that appeared in the ...
... Dryden . One of his most famous and influential literary verdicts occurs in his first preface , the ' Life of Cowley ' , where Johnson uses Dryden's term ' Metaphysical Poets ' to refer to the ' race of writers ' that appeared in the ...
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London and The Vanity of Human Wishes | 1 |
The Rambler and the Idler | 25 |
The Dictionary | 39 |
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