Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum

by Lynda Mugglestone and Freya Johnston

Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson's prose style as 'a species of rhyming' in which 'the close of the period follows as mechanically as the oscillation of a pendulum, the sense is balanced with the sound'. Predictable, formulaic, and unresponsive,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199654344
• ISBN13: 9780199654345
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.8"