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Tag: Samuel Johnson

256. (Samuel Beckett)

Beckett said Samuel Johnson was always with him; yet reading the trilogy, Molloy etc, one feels also (Kenner remarked on … More

Proust, Romanticism, Samuel Beckett, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth

239. (Matthew Arnold)

Matthew Arnold suggests how a thoroughgoing Platonism might help us think through art, criticism, and more: “the application of ideas … More

Criticism, Matthew Arnold, plato, Samuel Johnson, William Empson

191. (Samuel Johnson)

Samuel Johnson has never held me in magnetic thrall as he does so many of the critics I admire. He … More

Criticism, Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

176. (Robert Burns)

It’s difficult to know what to do with Robert Burns, besides read and enjoy him, and take fortification from him; … More

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Robert Burns, Romanticism, Samuel Johnson, Scottish Literature, Thom Gunn, William Empson

30. (Samuel Johnson)

At the same time as the novel was rising in the world, the greatest force in English letters was working … More

Beckett, Criticism, Donald Davie, Geoffrey Hill, Poetry, Samuel Johnson
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