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... interest and knowledge which Johnson brought to bear on his literary studies . He had , first and foremost , the ordinary equipment of any educated man of his day : a working knowledge of Greek and a rather better than working knowledge ...
... interest and knowledge which Johnson brought to bear on his literary studies . He had , first and foremost , the ordinary equipment of any educated man of his day : a working knowledge of Greek and a rather better than working knowledge ...
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... interests of a Percy ( and , later , a Walter Scott ) with a Wordsworthian or Keatsian interest in the ' poetic mind ' ; it is , like Wallace Stevens's ' Anecdote of a Jar ' , a poem about writing poetry . In 1766 Goldsmith gave a ...
... interests of a Percy ( and , later , a Walter Scott ) with a Wordsworthian or Keatsian interest in the ' poetic mind ' ; it is , like Wallace Stevens's ' Anecdote of a Jar ' , a poem about writing poetry . In 1766 Goldsmith gave a ...
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... interest in the processes of literary creation - an interest , as we saw , foreign to the neo - classic mind . Apart from arguing with Shakespeare over matters of diction , Johnson provided a running commentary on the action in which he ...
... interest in the processes of literary creation - an interest , as we saw , foreign to the neo - classic mind . Apart from arguing with Shakespeare over matters of diction , Johnson provided a running commentary on the action in which he ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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