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Biography -- 18th century --- Litterateurs -- Biography --- Scientists -- Biography --- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism --- Science -- Great Britain -- History

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English literature --- History and criticism --- anno 1700-1799 --- History and criticism. --- Littérature anglaise --- Histoire et critique --- English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

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Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history and satire, and to have survived mainly as a "tragic sense" in writers like Samuel Johnson. Leopold Damrosch shows that many readers were still capable of an imaginative response to tragedy. In Johnson, however, moral and aesthetic assumptions limited his ability to appreciate or create tragedy, despite a deep understanding of human suffering. This limitation, Mr. Damrosch argues, derived partly from his Christian belief, and more largely from a view of reality that did not allow exclusive focus on its tragic aspects.The author discusses Irene, The vanity of Human Wishes, and Johnson's criticism of tragedy, particularly that of Shakespeare. A Final chapter places Johnson's view in the context of modern theories.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Tragic, The. --- Tragedy --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature - 18th century - History and criticism --- Tragedy - History and criticism --- Tragic, The --- Johnson, Samuel, - 1709-1784 - Criticism and interpretation

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Although the history of literature and the history of art are so closely interwoven as to be indispensable to one another, it has been extremely difficult for readers of literature to gain any knowledge of the arts of design because the information is widely scattered in books written by specialists for specialists. Recognizing this fact, B. Sprague Allen has taken a corner of the vast field and discussed the development of taste in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His book is an account of taste, that is, the likes and dislikes of the men who built and furnished houses and laid out gardens in this period of English culture. Their taste is revealed to a hitherto unrecognized extent in diaries, letters, essays, and plays, and is an index of English civilization. Allen has thus been concerned with the whole complex pattern of living and has made us think and feel and see with the faculties of the cultivated Englishman of two or three hundred years ago.

Aesthetics. --- Art and literature. --- Civilization. --- English literature. --- Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein. --- Aesthetics -- History. --- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. --- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. --- Great Britain -- Civilization.