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Philip Smallwood
Philip Smallwood
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The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson
Forms of Artistry and Thought
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Index

Addison, Joseph, 7, 51–59, 62–63, 66, 68, 71–72, 74, 82–83, 89, 99, 103, 113, 123–124, 150, 179, 188
Campaign, The, 150
Cato, 12, 57–62, 70, 89, 99, 103, 185
Spectator, The, 58, 66, 68–69
aesthetics, 7, 73, 96, 99, 101, 110
Alexander, Samuel, 94
Alexander the Great, 152, 155
alexandrines, 80
allegory, 73, 150, 177, 187
Anderson, Robert, 197–198
Anne, Queen of England, 70, 114
Antiquaries, Society of, 75
Arbuthnot, John, 73
Aristotle, 47, 106, 178
Arnold, Matthew, 3, 116, 180, 187
art and life, 3–4, 10, 40–42, 46–47, 143, 151, 178, 185, 192
artistry, 3–4, 13, 25, 35, 38, 90, 143, 159, 175, 179
Astley, Neil, 13
attention, 27, 33, 47, 61, 119, 140, 143, 148–149, 154, 156, 193
Aubrey, John, 82
Augustan, 13, 112, 191, 193, 195
Austen, Jane, 146, 151
Bacon, Francis, 9, 107, 113
beauty, 20–22, 28, 96, 102, 153
Beckett, Samuel, 26, 40
beginnings, 187–188
being, 29–30, 118, 133, 142, 183, 186
belles lettres, 7, 73
Bergson, Henri, 94, 133, 139, 141
Berkeley, Bishop George, 154
Berlin, Isaiah, 103, 154, 156
biography, 86, 88, 180–182
Blackmore, Sir Richard, 64, 161, 169, 175
Creation, 161, 169, 175
Prince Arthur, 73, 169
Blake, William, 21, 197
An Island in the Moon, 197
blank verse, 61, 87, 165, 177, 187, 190
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 148
Boétie, Étienne de la, 113
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas, 12, 57, 65, 68, 71
L’art poétique, 68, 87
Le lutrin, 65
Traité du sublime, 71
Bossu, René le, 73–74
Traité du poeme épique, 73
Boswell, James, 2, 5, 38, 50, 64, 113, 122, 130, 166, 174, 181, 193
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 2
Bronson, Bertrand, 167
Brontë, Emily, 5
Broome, William, 164, 180
Browne, Sir Thomas, 5
Burke, Edmund, 71, 97
On the Sublime and the Beautiful, 97
Burney, Charles, Jr., 23
Burrow, Colin, 175, 179
Bussy-Rabutin, Roger, Comte de, 153
Butler, Samuel, 80, 180
Hudibras, 80
Byron, Lord (George Gordon Byron), 28
Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, The, 106
Cannadine, David, 123
Cannan, Paul D., 74
Carlyle, Thomas, 5
causation, 97, 108, 172
Cave, Terence, 113
Cervantes, Miguel de (Don Quixote), 80
Charles XII, King of Sweden, 151
Chatterton, Thomas, 79
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 11, 79, 85, 123, 148
“Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” 148, 152
“The Knight’s Tale,” 182
chronology, 66, 86–87, 130
Churchill, Charles, 175
Cibber, Colley, 20
Cibber, Theophilus, 171
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 112
Clarendon, first Earl of (Edward Hyde), 82
Cleveland, John, 80, 181
Clingham, Greg, 2, 120, 123, 131
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 5, 106, 138
Collingwood, R. G., 86, 107
Collins, William, 50–51, 184, 188
comedies, 46, 106, 117, 149, 191, 196
common reader, the, 76, 156, 178
Condell, Henry, 46, 117
Congreve, William, 49, 80, 124, 162, 164
The Mourning Bride, The, 49
copytext, 21, 163, 166–167, 169
Corneille, Pierre, 42
Cotton, Charles, 9, 112
Cowley, Abraham, 35, 56, 80–81, 85–86, 113, 123, 160, 179, 181, 188
Anacreontiques, 160
Chronicle, The, 160
Davideis, The, 85
Mistress, The, 146
Pindaric Odes, 56
Croft, Sir Herbert, 164
curiosity, 31, 75, 77, 84, 139, 140–141, 190, 193
Dasein. See Heidegger, Martin
Davis, Philip (Shakespeare Thinking), 94
De Quincey, Thomas, 5
death, 6–7, 30–32, 35, 38, 109, 112, 116, 123–125, 133–134, 179, 182–187, 195
Denham, Sir John, 80–82, 88, 180, 185, 191
Dennis, John, 7, 28, 45, 48, 51, 55–75
Appius and Virginia, 65
Critical Works, 58, 60–61, 63, 64, 66, 70, 72–73
Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear, 56, 60
Preface to translation of Ovid’s “The Passion of Byblis,” 72
Remarks on Prince Arthur, 73
Remarks on the Rape of the Lock, 64
devotional poetry, 71, 160
Dewey, John, 94
Disraeli, Isaac, 62–63
Dorset, sixth Earl of (Charles Sackville), 124, 175
Dryden, John, 7, 34, 61, 63, 71, 80–82, 87–89, 112, 123–124, 136, 148–156, 162, 168, 176–177, 179–180, 182, 184–185, 195
Absalom and Achitophel, 150
“Against the Fear of Death,” 112
Alexander’s Feast, 10, 34, 148, 152, 155, 161
“Cock and the Fox, The,” 152
Fables, Ancient and Modern, 112
“Heads of an Answer” (to Rymer), 164
“Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco,” 84
Palamon and Arcite, 182
Sylvae, or Poetical Miscellanies, 112
Duke, Richard, 124, 175
Duncombe, John, 24
Eliot, T. S., 95, 175, 187
Four Quartets, 107
“Johnson as Critic and Poet,” 73, 175, 181
Elphinston, James, 135
epic poetry, 73–74, 85–86, 88, 176
Erasmus, Desiderius Roterodamus, 9, 123
In Praise of Folly, 123
Erskine-Hill, Howard, 123
Euripides (Alcestis), 47
existentialism, 106
Fairfax, Edward (translation of Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata), 82, 87
Fairer, David, 77
fancy, 10, 35, 119, 147, 151, 160
Feltham, Henry, 81
Fenton, Elijah, 82, 124, 164
Ferry, David, 5–7, 17, 19–31, 33, 37–38, 50, 183
“Johnson on Pope – from the Lives of the Poets,” 19
Of No Country I Know, 19
“That Evening at Dinner,” 30
“The Lesson – from the Latin of Samuel Johnson,” 37
“What Johnson Means to Me,” 17
fiction and fictionality, 18, 35, 41–43, 46, 78, 100, 105, 109, 141, 143–154, 156
Fielding, Henry, 130
Fleeman, J. D., 163
Florio, John, 9, 115–116
flux, 11, 100, 105, 122, 137, 141, 180
France, 9, 51, 99, 121
fraud, 78, 143–144, 151, 188
Gadamer, Hans-Georg (Truth and Method), 2
Garrick, David, 50
Gay, John, 124
Three Hours after Marriage (with Arbuthnot and Pope), 73
general nature, 9–11, 23, 30, 32–33, 41, 56–57, 109, 137, 156, 168, 172
generality, 123, 171
genius, 1, 23, 57–58, 62, 73, 77–78, 80, 96–97, 100, 103, 129, 161–162, 164, 170, 175, 180, 185, 193–194, 196
Gerard, Alexander (An Essay on Taste), 96
Gentleman’s Magazine, 24–25, 129
Gillray, James, 186, 194, 197
“Dr Pomposo,” 186
“Old Wisdom Blinking at the Stars,” 186, 197
Goldsmith, Oliver, 175
Granville, George, Lord Lansdowne, 169
Gray, Thomas, 76, 88, 166, 175, 185, 194
Elegy in a Country Churchyard, 76, 178
Odes, 175
Greenblatt, Stephen, 116
Greene, Donald, 111
Groom, Nick (“The Poet as Fraud”), 143–144, 151
Grundy, Isobel, 112
Guardian, The, 20
Hagstrum, Jean H., 2
Halifax, first Earl of (Charles Montagu), 62, 160, 175, 183, 187
Hall, Joseph, 77
Hamlin, William H., 115
Hammond, James, 160, 175, 183, 187, 194
Hammond, Paul, 152
Handel, George Frideric, 34
Hawkesworth, Dr. John, 32, 180
Hazlitt, William, 106
Hearne, Tom, 25
heart, the, 6–7, 57, 102–103, 105, 121, 148, 184–185
as final arbiter of appeal, 6–7, 57, 102–103, 184–185, 121
as principle of judgment, 3–4, 10, 12–13, 121
Hector, Edmund, 37
Heidegger, Martin, 137
Heming, John, 46, 117
heroes, 41, 57, 146, 197
Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey, 28
Hervey, William, 35
Hill, George Birkbeck, 11, 163, 173
Hilles, Frederick, 168
Hinnant, Charles H., 2, 65
history of criticism, 4, 99, 108, 178, 190
Holyday, Barten, 81
Homer, 60, 64, 139, 180, 185, 193
Iliad, The, 10, 84, 161, 181
Hooker, E. N., 70, 73
Hoole, John (translation of Tasso), 82
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), 68, 112
Houghton Library, 39
Hughes, John, 124, 153, 175
Hume, David, 99–101, 108, 122
History of England, 100
Treatise of Human Nature, 100
Ignatieff, Michael, 18
imagination, 10, 18–19, 34, 44, 73, 78, 81, 96, 119, 138–139, 142, 143, 145, 148–149, 154, 156, 165, 182
imitation, 47, 75, 138, 177
impassioned prose, 5
invention, 143, 147–148, 156
James, Henry, 122
James, William, 94
Jenyns, Soame, 30, 33, 37, 104, 125
Johnson, Samuel
Account of the Harleian Library, 78
Adventurer, 97, 121, 147, 148, 179
on the credible, 42–43, 114
critical integrity of, 4
“Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia,” 144
on delusion, 42
Diaries, Prayers, and Annals, 10, 120
Dictionary of the English Language, A, 17, 33, 59, 65, 79, 85, 113, 119, 121, 129, 145–147, 171
“History of the Revival of Learning in Europe,” 188
humor, in criticism, 56, 57, 71–72, 160
Idler, 129, 172
Irene, 151, 193–194
“In rivum a Mola Stoana Lichfeldiae diffluentum,” 6, 36
“In the Morning,” 38
Johnson on Shakespeare, 115, 167
Journey to the Western Isles, 140
Letters, 6, 38–39, 174
“Life of Addison,” 57, 72, 89
“Life of Butler,” 180
“Life of Collins,” 50–51, 184
“Life of Congreve,” 125, 164
“Life of Cowley,” 83, 86, 136, 185
“Life of Denham,” 180
“Life of Dorset,” 124
“Life of Dryden,” 63, 86, 125, 164, 170, 178
comparison of Dryden and Rymer, 63
“Life of Duke,” 124
“Life of Dyer,” 171
“Life of Fenton,” 125
“Life of Gay,” 125
“Life of Granville,” 169
“Life of Gray,” 153, 156, 178–179
“Life of Hughes,” 124
“Life of J. Philips,” 82
“Life of King,” 124
“Life of Lyttelton,” 179
“Life of Milton,” 145, 171, 176, 180, 181, 190
“Life of Otway,” 124, 167
“Life of Parnell,” 125
“Life of Pitt,” 180
“Life of Pomfret,” 171
“Life of Pope,” 3, 19, 37, 66–67, 69, 137, 148, 164, 168, 177
comparison of Dryden and Pope, 156, 168, 176
“Life of Prior,” 73, 82, 113, 140
“Life of Roscommon,” 79, 82
“Life of Rowe,” 168
“Life of Savage,” 18, 131, 145, 179–182, 184
“Life of Smith,” 180
“Life of Sprat,” 164
“Life of Swift,” 6, 31, 180, 181, 182
“Life of Thomson,” 165
“Life of Waller,” 71, 82, 87, 120
“Life of Walsh,” 171, 180
“Life of Yalden,” 171
“Life of Young,” 164, 165
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on Their Works, 159
Lives of the Poets, 8, 31, 34–35, 76, 78–79, 84, 148, 162, 165, 169, 194
London, 36, 129
“Marmor Norfolciense,” 143
“Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth,” 133
Preface to The Preceptor, 87, 130
Preface to Shakespeare, 13, 42, 55, 57, 79, 85, 95, 102–103, 125, 138, 142, 145, 156, 170, 191
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, 178
Rambler, 3, 18, 30, 50, 57, 104–105, 113–114, 120, 129, 131, 135, 140, 146, 149, 172, 177, 182, 186, 188, 192
Rasselas, 9, 10, 40, 46, 105, 106, 109, 115, 117–119, 120, 121–122, 125, 141–142, 151, 180, 188
readership(s), 1, 83
Review of Soame Jenyns, A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, 6, 29, 30, 104
Vanity of Human Wishes, 36, 124, 135, 137, 140, 150, 162
Works of Johnson (collected edition), 169
Works of Johnson (Oxford edition, 1825) 163
Johnsonian News Letter, 17, 172
Johnston, Freya, 123
Jonson, Ben, 81
judgment, 3, 4, 12–13, 19, 35, 51, 57, 60, 62, 71, 75, 88, 101–103, 107, 109, 115, 118–119, 121, 141, 149, 153, 162, 165, 168, 170, 172, 184, 193–194, 197
Jung, Carl Gustav, 6
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis), 194
Kames, Lord (Henry Home) (Elements of Criticism), 96
Kant, Immanuel, 99, 101, 102–103, 107, 109, 110, 137
Critique of Judgement, 102
Critique of Pure Reason, 137
katharsis, 108
Kenrick, William, 197
Kipling, Rudyard, 140
Kirkley, Harriet, 55, 168
Korshin, Paul, 113
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 195
Lamarque, Peter, 151
Landor, Walter Savage, 5
language, Shakespearean use of, 192
latent meaning, 5, 11
Latin, 6, 36–38, 60, 111, 186
Leavis, F. R., 12, 13, 107, 110, 147, 186, 189–198
Lichfield, 6, 36, 129, 132, 188
Lintot, Bernard, 68
London Magazine, 70
Longman Dryden, 152
Lonsdale, Roger, 11, 21, 23, 24, 69, 129, 153, 159–165, 166, 167, 169, 170–172, 173–175, 176, 179
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Caro), 112, 116, 140
De rerum natura, 112
Lynch, Jack, 111, 113
Lynn, Steven, 2
MacKillop, Ian, 192
Macpherson, James, 144
Ossian, 78, 144
major form, 177–178
Malone, Edmond (Works of Shakespeare), 47
Manning, Mary, 40
Mantel, Hilary, 182
Marlborough, Duchess of (Sarah Churchill), 114
Marston, John, 77
Martindale, Charles, 105
Marvell, Andrew, 136
Marxism, 106
Mason, Tom, 155
Mason, William, 70, 76
McGinn, Colin, 107
metaphor, 88, 118, 133, 134–135, 136, 140, 156, 177
Metaphysical poets, 7, 71, 80, 121, 160, 184
Middendorf, John, 167, 172
Milbourne, Luke, 183
mind, 2, 5, 11, 26, 32, 45, 50–51, 78, 84, 85, 87, 94, 101, 102, 114, 115, 119, 120, 122, 123, 130–131, 138, 140, 145, 153, 154, 155–156, 162, 166, 170, 171, 176, 178, 179, 182, 188, 193, 194, 195
mingled drama, 9, 11, 47, 49, 117, 142, 181
Milton, John, 12, 30, 35, 71, 80, 88, 96, 97, 124, 147, 160, 179, 191, 194
Lycidas, 7, 35, 146, 147, 148, 153, 156, 160, 175, 190, 191, 193, 194
Paradise Lost, 30, 71, 74, 161, 181, 190
Monboddo, Lord (James Burnett), 181
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 24
Montaigne, Michel de, 9, 11, 69, 105, 106, 108, 111–125, 183
“Apology for Raimond de Sebonde,” 119
“That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn How to Die,” 115, 123
Morgann, Maurice, 100
mythology, 104, 148, 151, 154, 184
narrative, 6, 8, 11, 18, 28, 29, 40, 42, 73, 76, 77, 79, 85–89, 106, 111, 122, 138, 151, 152–153, 155–156, 162, 163, 175, 180, 188
nature, 29, 40, 45, 46, 49, 56–57, 80, 94, 98, 103–105, 115, 119, 140, 149, 183, 185, 193, See also general nature,
human, 9, 86, 93, 101, 102, 103, 117, 121, 136
rural, 88, 164
Neoclassicism, 13, 86
New Criticism (and Johnson), 2
Newton, John, 192
Nichols, John, 58, 166
Nunnery, David, 63
Nuttall, A. D., 96, 98
occasional poetry, 15
Olsen, Stein Haugom, 151
originality, 60, 73, 79, 80, 82
Otway, Thomas, 124
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (and Ovidian), 11, 72, 106, 112, 135–136, 141
Metamorphoses, 135, 148
The Passion of Byblis, 72
Oxford, Earl of (Robert Harley), 23–24, 27
Parker, Fred, 2, 45, 120, 130
Parnell, Thomas, 124
pastoral(s), 7, 35, 86, 147, 160, 177, 183, 184, 190, 195
Pembroke College, Oxford, 131
Perkins, David, 8
Philips, John (The Splendid Shilling), 82
philosophical fiction, 105, 109, 141
Pindaric(k), 82, 177
Piozzi, Gabriel, 39
Piozzi, Hester Thrale, 6, 39, 40, 43, 129
Pitt, Christopher, 180
Pitt, William, the Elder, 144
Plato, 106
Platt, Peter G., 116
pleasure, 9, 44, 48–49, 60, 102, 129, 140, 145, 147, 153, 155, 160, 171, 174–176, 190
poetical diction, 81, 161
poetical justice, 45, 58, 60–61, 191–192
Pomfret, John, 123, 175
Pope, Alexander, 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 19–33, 38, 51, 55, 64–72, 73, 74, 76, 88, 101, 103, 104, 112, 123, 124, 129, 134, 148–153, 155–156, 161–162, 164, 168, 176, 177, 179–180, 182, 185, 193–195, 198
edition of Shakespeare, 40
Eloisa to Abelard, 148, 153
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 20
Essay on Criticism, 1, 161, 176, 177, 178
Essay on Man, 69, 104, 125, 134, 160, 168
Homer (translation), 64, 161, 180, 185
Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris, 66
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, 148
Rape of the Lock, 64, 65
Temple of Fame, 64, 189
Three Hours after Marriage (with Gay and Arbuthnot), 73
Windsor Forest, 64
Popish Plot, 150
postmodernism, 106
Prior, Matthew, 73, 82, 141, 181, 188
probability, 59, 60, 61, 119, 192
process philosophy, 94, 105
Proust, Marcel, 136
Racine, Jean, 42
Rapin, René, 12, 57, 121
rationality, 95, 96
reality, 10, 18, 21, 28, 37, 42, 44, 46, 51, 79, 141, 142, 143, 146, 151–152, 154–155
reason, 31, 40, 50, 68, 95, 104, 110, 114, 116, 118–119, 145, 193
Rees, Christine, 2
relativism, 106
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 38, 56
Discourses on Art, 56
representation, 9, 42, 58, 143, 147
rhyme, 87, 143, 150, 165
rhythm, of prose, 4, 5, 22, 174–176, 179, 187
Richardson, Samuel, 130
Richardson, William, 96, 100
Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare’s Remarkable Characters, 96
Ricks, Christopher, 5, 21, 37–38, 104
Ricoeur, Paul, 89
Rogers, Pat, 78
Romanticism, 86, 106
Rorty, Richard, 154
Roscommon, fourth Earl of (Wentworth Dillon), 69, 79, 82
Essay on Translated Verse, 69
Roubiliac, Louis-François, 22
Rounce, Adam, 155
Rudd, Niall, 36
Ruskin, John, 5
Rymer, Thomas, 12, 45, 56, 60, 63–64, 164, 177
Short View of Tragedy, 63
Sacheverell, Henry, 164
Sandys, George, 81
Savage, Richard, 18, 19, 123, 131, 143, 145, 179
Sir Thomas Overbury, 145
Schlegel, Friedrich, 13
self, the, 32, 86, 113, 120–122, 132, 154, 164
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (the Younger), 136
Settle, Elkanah, 84
Shakespeare, William
Antony and Cleopatra, 42
As You Like It, 97
Coriolanus, 106
Hamlet, 3, 44–45, 47–50, 61, 99, 107–108, 116–118, 191, 196
Henry IV (Part 2), 134, 170
Henry VIII, 7, 49
Julius Caesar, 63, 99, 104
King John, 149
King Lear, 31, 44–46, 50, 61, 95–96, 97, 104, 108, 116, 170, 193, 196, 197
Love’s Labour’s Lost, 98
Macbeth, 107, 109, 192, 196
Measure for Measure, 108, 116
Midsummer Night’s Dream, 108
Othello, 12, 44, 45, 50, 57, 63, 95, 96, 99, 103, 108, 196
Richard II, 95
Romeo and Juliet, 93, 97
Tempest, 97, 115, 149
Winter’s Tale, 42
Sherbo, Arthur, 167
Sherman, Stuart, 140–142
Smart, Christopher, 175
Smith, Edmund, 175, 180
Soame, Sir William, 87
sound and sense, 87, 176–177
Spector, Robert D., 113
Spenser, Edmund, 79
Sprat, Thomas, 86, 181
Steele, Sir Richard, 63, 72, 113
The Theatre, 63
Steevens, George, 47, 166
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 41
sublime, the, 35, 71, 97, 149
Suckling, Sir John, 80
suffering(s), 17–19, 21, 26, 29, 33, 44, 51, 178, 179, 183–184
supernatural, 93, 15
Swift, Jonathan, 6, 31–33, 38, 51, 70, 123, 124, 151, 179
Tasso, Torquato (Gerusalemme liberata), 82, 87
taste, 1, 8, 72, 73, 76–78, 81, 85, 88, 96, 99, 100–102, 104, 107, 109, 113, 145, 148, 153, 159, 161, 162, 186, 191, 194, 197
Tate, Nahum, 44
Tatler, 62
tears. See weeping
tediousness, 73, 113, 140
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 1, 50
Tetty (Elizabeth Johnson, née Porter), 6, 38, 50
Theobald, Lewis, 104
Thomson, James, 88, 164, 165, 175, 185
The Seasons, 165, 185
thought, 4, 9, 90, 94–96, 100, 102, 104–105, 107, 109–110, 120, 134, 159, 177–178, 196
Thrale, Henry, 38
Thrale, Hester, Mrs. Piozzi. See Piozzi, Hester Thrale
Thrale, Hester Maria (Queeney), 46
Tickell, Thomas, 166
time, 9, 10, 18, 32, 37–38, 42, 49, 59–60, 62, 83, 86–87, 89, 106, 109, 125, 129–142, 191
Tolstoy, Count Leo, 34, 154–156
War and Peace, 154
Tonson, Jacob (the Elder), 152
Tourette’s, 20
tragedy (tragedies), 6, 12, 29, 32, 42, 46–47, 49, 57, 60–61, 84, 96, 103, 106, 108, 117, 149, 191, 193–194, 196
translation, 6, 21, 75, 81, 87
truth, 3, 10, 85, 105, 143, 145–148, 150, 153–156, 177, 182, 185, 193
Twining, Thomas, 47
unities (of time and place), 10, 42, 60, 154
unsentimental pity, 17, 19, 31, 33, 49–50, 183
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (Virgilian), 37, 82, 83, 112, 118, 147, 171
Georgic 2, 118
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet, 22, 48, 56, 99, 103
“Appel à toutes les nations de l’Europe,” 99, 103
Waller, Edmund, 71, 80, 82, 87–88, 185, 191
Walpole, Horace, 70, 77
Walpole, Sir Robert, 144
Walsh, William, 68, 180
Walton, Isaac, 112
Wanley, Humphrey, 25
Warburton, Bishop William, 98, 115, 116, 149
Warton, Joseph, 71, 97, 99, 149, 194, 197
Warton, Thomas, 8, 49, 75–89
Watts, Rev. Isaac, 175
weeping, 35, 39, 48
Wellek, René, 41
West, Richard, 166
Whitehead, A. N., 94
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester, 124
Winn, James, A. (Queen Anne: Patron of Arts), 70
Wittgenstein, Ludwig von, 120
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, 151
Womersley, David, 70, 101–102
Augustan Critical Writing, 70
Woolf, Virginia, 5
Wordsworth, William, 57, 79, 88, 185
Wycherley, William, 71, 189
Yeats, W. B. (“Sailing to Byzantium”), 139

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  • Philip Smallwood, Birmingham City University
  • Book: The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson
  • Online publication: 07 September 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009369992.020
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  • Philip Smallwood, Birmingham City University
  • Book: The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson
  • Online publication: 07 September 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009369992.020
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