Rational Praise and Natural Lamentation : Johnson, Lycidas, and principles of criticism / James L. Battersby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Battersby, James L., author.

Contributor:

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Johnson, Samuel.

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Literature.

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Lycidas.

Milton, John.

Criticism--History.

Criticism.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

282, [6] pages ; 24 cm

Distribution:

London : Associated University Presses,

Place of Publication:

Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [1980]

Contents:

Introduction: Johnson's Criticism and the Criticism of Johnson

Part I: The Limitations of Dialectical Approaches to Johnson's Thought. 1. Johnson's Criticism: From Apodictic Standards to the Standards of the Heart; 2. Johnson's Criticism: Stable Instability; 3. The Limitations of Dialectical Approaches to Johnson's Criticism

Part II: Johnson's Criticism: Theory and Practice. 4. The Intellectual Integrity of Johnson's Principles of Criticism; 4. Pastoral Defined; 6. Rational Praise, Natural Lamentation, and the Elegiac Occasion

Appendix: Principles of Criticism: Individual Talent and Coded Media.

Notes:

"© 1980 Associated University Presses, Inc."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-272) and index.

Local Notes:

PR3537.L5.B37 1980 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2021 has stamp "Withdrawn Iowa State University Library" throughout with pocket attached to back pastedown. Front pastedown has bookplate of Iowa State University. Text has underlines, marginal marks, and ms. annotations. Shipping list from Better World Books is laid in.

ISBN:

0838621481

OCLC:

4884670