The Complete English Poems
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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From the towering intellect of eighteenth-century English literature comes The Complete English Poems, a definitive collection that gathers every verse Samuel Johnson committed to the English language — works that crackle with moral authority, satirical precision, and profound human feeling. This volume chronicles Johnson's poetic career from his early imitations of Juvenal, most notably London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, through his prologues, epitaphs, and occasional verse, presenting a portrait of a man who wielded rhyme and metre as instruments of philosophical enquiry as much as artistic expression. Johnson's poetry stands as a cornerstone of the Augustan tradition, arguing — with unflinching clarity — that human ambition is perpetually humbled by fate, time, and the indifference of the world. His heroic couplets achieve a gravity and rhetorical force rarely matched in the English canon, and this collected edition allows readers to trace the full arc of his poetic voice, from youthful fire to hard-won wisdom. Edited with scholarly care, it presents not merely the work of a great prose stylist moonlighting in verse, but of a poet whose lines — once read — are impossible to forget.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the towering intellect of eighteenth-century English literature comes The Complete English Poems, a definitive collection that gathers every verse Samuel Johnson committed to the English language — works that crackle with moral authority, satirical precision, and profound human feeling. This volume chronicles Johnson's poetic career from his early imitations of Juvenal, most notably London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, through his prologues, epitaphs, and occasional verse, presenting a portrait of a man who wielded rhyme and metre as instruments of philosophical enquiry as much as artistic expression. Johnson's poetry stands as a cornerstone of the Augustan tradition, arguing — with unflinching clarity — that human ambition is perpetually humbled by fate, time, and the indifference of the world. His heroic couplets achieve a gravity and rhetorical force rarely matched in the English canon, and this collected edition allows readers to trace the full arc of his poetic voice, from youthful fire to hard-won wisdom. Edited with scholarly care, it presents not merely the work of a great prose stylist moonlighting in verse, but of a poet whose lines — once read — are impossible to forget.