The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... poet , even though his poetic output was small ; it consists of a handfull of poems , of which London and The Vanity of Human Wishes are the best . More- over , his Lives of the Poets has been recognized as the foremost critical work of ...
... poet , even though his poetic output was small ; it consists of a handfull of poems , of which London and The Vanity of Human Wishes are the best . More- over , his Lives of the Poets has been recognized as the foremost critical work of ...
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... poet - author of London and The Vanity of Human Wishes . For his poetic gift , too , contributed in no small degree to his escape from obscurity . In fact it was because of the two poems that he achieved his first reputation . It is ...
... poet - author of London and The Vanity of Human Wishes . For his poetic gift , too , contributed in no small degree to his escape from obscurity . In fact it was because of the two poems that he achieved his first reputation . It is ...
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... poet dreams being awake . He is not possessed by his subject , but he has dominion over it " . The poet has control over his imagination and his fantasy , which the neurotic has not . We must not forget the great significance of ...
... poet dreams being awake . He is not possessed by his subject , but he has dominion over it " . The poet has control over his imagination and his fantasy , which the neurotic has not . We must not forget the great significance of ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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