5. Write briefly of Johnson's Dictionary and “Rasselas." To what does Johnson owe his great reputation? Why? Write briefly of Johnson's friends. Explain the difference between the political opinions of Johnson and Burke, and attempt to account for it. Mention the chief characteristics of Johnson's style. Comment on Macaulay's statement (21 30-32) that English, as Johnson wrote it, was scarcely a Teutonic language. 6. Give a list of the famous English authors contemporary with Johnson, and a list of such of their works as you have read in whole or in part. On what books have you chiefly depended for your knowledge of English literature in the eighteenth century? Contrast briefly "The Vicar of Wakefield" and "Rasselas." What poet of Johnson's time is most his opposite in character and genius? Why? What other famous novels besides “Rasselas ” (excluding “The Vicar of Wakefield ") were written in the "Johnson age" and how do they compare with "Rasselas " in method and interest? 7. What traits of Macaulay's character made him especially well fitted to appreciate Johnson's genius? How, in your opinion, does the "Life of Johnson" compare in interest with other writings of Macaulay? Has it, in your opinion, any conspicuous limitations or defects? 8. Mention any parts of the "Life" that have specially interested you or have proved particularly suggestive. 1814. Sent to school at] Shelford. 1818. Entered Trinity College, Cambridge. 1819. First Chancellor's Medal. 1821. Craven Scholarship. Second Chancel 1822. Degree of B.A. to 1823. Parkman born. Knight's Quarterly Magazine. 1824. Elected Fellow of 1824. First public speech. 1824. Byron died. 1826. Called to the bar. 1828. Commissioner of 1828. Bankruptcy. 1841. Re-elected to Parlia-[1841. Essay on Warren ment for Edin Hastings. 1842. Lays of Ancient Rome. 1842. Dr. Arnold died. 1844. Essay on Earl of 1844. Campbell died. 1845. Hood died. 1841. Browning's Pippa 1841. Emerson's Essays, first Passes. Carlyle's Hero Worship. 1842. Tennyson's Poems. series. 1843. Ruskin's Modern 1843. Prescott's Conquest of Painters, vol. i. Dickens's Martin 1844. E. Barrett's (Mrs. Browning's) Poems. line. 1847. Thackeray's Vanity 1847. Longfellow's EvangeFair. Brontë's Jane Eyre. Tennyson's Princess. 1848. Lowell's Biglow Papers, first series, Vision of Sir Laun- 1849. Parkman's Oregon Trail. Whittier's Voices of Freedom. 1851. Cooper died. died. 1852. Webster and Moore 1852. Thackeray's Henry Es-1852. Stowe's Uncle Tom's mond. Cabin. 1848. History of England, vols. i. and ii. 1849. Lord Rector of Glas- 1849. Inaugural Speech at 1849. Poe died. gow University. Fellow of the Royal Society. Glasgow. |