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By Niall Rudd

This variation of Johnson's Latin Poems incorporates a Preface and creation by means of textual content, translation (prose), and short notes at the poems. numerous corrections were made to the traditional textual content. The notes care for the obscurities and supply touch upon variety and therapy. it's always fascinating to determine how Johnson makes use of his Latin assets, specially Horace, so as to add a size to his that means. there are various hyperlinks with universal episodes in Johnson's existence, e.g., his journey to the Hebrides, the revision of his dictionary, his restoration from sickness; and there are circumstances (notable within the anguished appeals for mercy in his prayers), the place the extra far-off Latin shape allows Johnson to claim issues approximately himself that he might by no means have expressed in English. The reader will locate new information extra to the well-loved portrait.

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According to Empedocles (Freeman 1956, 63), blood around the heart was the seat of thought and sensation (and hence of poetic ability). 20. 32, but the phrase used there is sententia dia. 27). 22. 19). Johnson uses the phrase again in connection with the metaphysical poets in The Life of Cowley. The terrible and convincing picture of Johnson’s mental state might seem to have nothing in common with Horace’s experience. But that is because the conventional picture of the cheerful, well-adjusted Roman poet is far from complete.

96–98. 719–21, where the souls in Hades are eager to return to the world above. 102. The Nabathaeans lived in north Arabia. 104. Ophir: a region famous for its gold; its location is uncertain, but is thought to have been in either south or east Arabia. 105. Idume: the biblical Edom in south Palestine. 107–8. ” 108–11. Cf. 19–20. 114–19. Cf. 10. 37 Ad Urbanum Urbane, nullis fesse laboribus, Urbane, nullis victe calumniis, Cui fronte sertum in erudita Perpetuo viret et virebit; Quid moliatur gens imitantium, Quid et minetur, sollicitus parum, Vacare solis perge Musis, Juxta animo studiisque felix.

11. Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678– 1751) A distinguished Tory who led the opposition to Walpole and attacked him in The Craftsman. After 1723 he was a neighbor of Pope, who much admired him for his intellect and eloquence. Speaking of the grotto, Pope says “There, my retreat the best companions grace, / Chiefs, out of war, and statesmen, out of place. / There St. 72). For a general study see I. Kramnik, Bolingbroke and his Circle, 1968. It is relevant to add that Pope’s Essay on Man, which he dedicated to Bolingbroke, was intended to be read “at least in some degree, as a modern De Rerum Natura” (Mack 1985, 525; for bibliographical support see his note on 898).

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