Own your ignorance
Freya Johnston: Samuel Johnson’s Criticism, 25 April 2024
The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought
by Philip Smallwood.
Cambridge, 219 pp., £85, September 2023,978 1 009 36999 2 Show More
by Philip Smallwood.
Cambridge, 219 pp., £85, September 2023,
“... bristles with comic potential. One of the most salutary aspects of Johnson’s criticism, as Philip Smallwood has pointed out in a previous study, Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment (2004), is that it refuses to take itself or its subject matter entirely seriously. When Imlac, venerable tour guide of Johnson’s Abyssinian ... ”
