Johnson's Milton /

Samuel Johnson is often represented as primarily antagonistic or antipathetic to Milton. Yet his imaginative and intellectual engagement with Milton's life and writing extended across the entire span of his own varied writing career. As essayist, poet, lexicographer, critic and biographer-above...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rees, Christine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Temas:
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784 > Knowledge > Literature.
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784 > Criticism and interpretation.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Influence.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Criticism and interpretation.
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Johnson the reader/writer : appropriating Milton's texts. Summoning Milton's ghost : Miltonic allusion in the periodical essays ; 'No Miltonian fire'? : Miltonic allusion in Johnson's poetry ; Rasselas : a rewriting of Paradise lost? ; 'Licence they mean when they cry liberty' : the 1770s tracts
  • Johnson the critic : assessing Milton's achievement. 'Phantoms which cannot be wounded' : the Lauder affair ; Cutting a Colossus : Johnson's criticism of Paradise lost ; Cherry-stones : Johnson on Milton's shorter poems
  • Johnson the biographer : constructing Milton's character. 'An acrimonious and surly republican' : Milton as political subject ; 'Domestick privacies' : Milton as private subject ; Conclusion : 'what other author ever soared so high?'

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