First published in 1971, Reinterpretations focusses upon a group of closely related major poems—L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Milton’s companion pieces, and Lycidas, Pope’s Rape of the Lock and Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, and Johnson’s London.
In Samuel Johnson (1979), John Hardy examines Johnson’s major works, emphasizing the connection between his spiritual nature and remarkable intelligence. Hardy’s... Læs mere