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Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
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Edward L. Tomarken

The present study of the Lives of the Poets is designed to show that Johnson’s value judgements about literature lead to ethical literary criticism that pertains to human problems affecting our daily life and world crises. In his Dictionary, Johnson defines ethics as “the doctrine of morality; a system of morality.”1 While morality and ethics were, according to Johnson, nearly in…

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9783031618420
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XIII, 172
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Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
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Edward L. Tomarken

This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic of Chapter One, “Why Genre”. Chapters two to five address the most prevalent genres of the Lives: tragedy, metaphysical poetry, …

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978-3-031-61842-0
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oer.unej.ac.id
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Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
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370