Johnson's Milton by Christine Rees

By Christine Rees

Samuel Johnson is usually represented as essentially hostile or antipathetic to Milton. but his ingenious and highbrow engagement with Milton's existence and writing prolonged around the whole span of his personal diverse writing occupation. As essayist, poet, lexicographer, critic and biographer - in particular as reader - Johnson built a debatable, attention-grabbing and effective literary dating along with his strong predecessor. to appreciate how Johnson creatively appropriates Milton's texts, how he seriously demanding situations but additionally confirms Milton's prestige, and the way he constructs him as a biographical topic, is to deepen the trendy reader's figuring out of either writers within the context of old continuity and alter. Christine Rees's insightful research should be of curiosity not just to Milton and Johnson experts, yet to all students of early glossy literary historical past and biography.

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