Dr. Samuel Johnson and James BoswellHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1986 - 280 páginas A collection of critical essays on the works of Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, arranged in order of original publication. |
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... fiction , a fiction in which his characters say wise and witty things , we properly give him credit not only for the power of expression that makes the whole vivid and absorbing but also for personal powers of wit and wisdom . When a ...
... fiction , a fiction in which his characters say wise and witty things , we properly give him credit not only for the power of expression that makes the whole vivid and absorbing but also for personal powers of wit and wisdom . When a ...
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... fiction ( poetry , drama ) is superior to biography ( history ) in its intensive and generalizing properties , biography carries a greater feeling of authenticity than fiction . We grant to truth what we would refuse to imagination ...
... fiction ( poetry , drama ) is superior to biography ( history ) in its intensive and generalizing properties , biography carries a greater feeling of authenticity than fiction . We grant to truth what we would refuse to imagination ...
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... Fiction , however , should not deny the world of experience for " the legitimate end of fiction is the conveyance of truth " ; and therefore , " poetical action ought to be probable upon certain suppositions . " What emerges , then , is ...
... Fiction , however , should not deny the world of experience for " the legitimate end of fiction is the conveyance of truth " ; and therefore , " poetical action ought to be probable upon certain suppositions . " What emerges , then , is ...
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Johnsons Theory | 11 |
The Life of Boswell | 31 |
The Treachery of the Human Heart and the Stratagems of Defense | 45 |
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Account of Corsica appears Auchinleck biographer Boswell's called chapter character comic conclusion context conversation Cowley criticism Dictionary dignity Dryden effect English envy essay example experience fact feel fiction Frank Brady genius happiness Hebrides hero hope Human Wishes ideal ideas imagination Imlac island James Boswell John Johnsonian judgment Juvenal's kind knowledge language Laura Quinney Leopold Damrosch less literary literature Lives London Journal meaning Milton mind moral narrative nation nature never Paoli Paradise Lost passage pastoral pathos Paul Fussell Pekuah perhaps philosophic Plutarch poem poet poetical poetry political Pope Pope's portrait Preface present Rambler Rasselas reader reason reflection remarks Samuel Johnson satire Savage says Scotland Scots seems sense Shakespeare simply story style Swift things thought Thrale Tour to Corsica tragic truth Vanity of Human virtue W. K. Wimsatt Walter Jackson Bate words writing