Samuel Johnson

Freya Johnston

earliest edition we have, 2012 Oxford University Press, 2012

"Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson's prose style as 'a species of rhyming' in which 'the close of the period follows as mechanically as the oscillation of a pendulum, the sense is balanced with the sound'. Predic...

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Samuel Johnson edition · 2012 · Oxford University Press · 9781283848381
Samuel Johnson edition · 2012 · Oxford University Press · 9780191637032
Samuel Johnson edition · 2012 · Oxford University Press · 233 pages · 9780199654345

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