Howard Erskine-Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 10322787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Erskine-Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Erskine-Hill |
| SIGNATURE | ERSKINE-HILL H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson
A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-cen
Fire under the Ashes
In Johnson’s ‘Life of Addison’, at the point where strict biography ends and the survey of works begins, he reminds himself of the hazards of writing about ‘contemporaries’ or near contemporaries. ‘I begin to feel myself walking upon ashes under which fire is not extinguished , and coming to the time of which it will be proper rather, to say nothing that is false, than all that is true ’ (98; III, p. 18). 1 These words, italicized by Johnson, are…
Literary Transmission and Authority
Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary historian to provide a conception of periods, and what would now be termed a comparatist. This 1993 book look…
The Augustan Idea in English Literature
The Waltham Black Act and Jacobitism
Interest in the origin of Walpole's Black Act (9 Geo. 1, c. 22), or the Waltham Black Act, as it was actually called, has arisen from work by Pat Rogers and E. P. Thompson. It was an act of exceptional severity, making no less than some fifty new offenses capital, and its origins have been debated by legal as well as by political historians. While Rogers stressed the criminality of the Blacks, Thompson set the act in a sociohistorical context, su…
Alexander Pope
Bred up at home, full early I begun To read in Greek, the Wrath of Peleus' Son. Besides, my Father taught me from a Lad, The better Art to know the good from bad: (And little sure imported to remove, To hunt for Truth in Maudlin's learned Grove.) But knottier Points we knew not half so well, Depriv'd us soon of our Paternal Cell; And certain Laws, by Suff'rers thought unjust, Deny'd all Posts of Profit or of Trust: Hopes after Hopes of pious Papi…
Writings on the Margins of Pope
The Medal against Time
The Waltham Black Act and Jacobitism
Interest in the origin of Walpole's Black Act (9 Geo. 1, c. 22), or the Waltham Black Act, as it was actually called, has arisen from work by Pat Rogers and E. P. Thompson. It was an act of exceptional severity, making no less than some fifty new offenses capital, and its origins have been debated by legal as well as by political historians. While Rogers stressed the criminality of the Blacks, Thompson set the act in a sociohistorical context, su…
The Medal against Time
The Medal against Time
Writings on the Margins of Pope
Alexander Pope
Bred up at home, full early I begun To read in Greek, the Wrath of Peleus' Son. Besides, my Father taught me from a Lad, The better Art to know the good from bad: (And little sure imported to remove, To hunt for Truth in Maudlin's learned Grove.) But knottier Points we knew not half so well, Depriv'd us soon of our Paternal Cell; And certain Laws, by Suff'rers thought unjust, Deny'd all Posts of Profit or of Trust: Hopes after Hopes of pious Papi…
The Augustan Idea in English Literature
The Waltham Black Act and Jacobitism
Interest in the origin of Walpole's Black Act (9 Geo. 1, c. 22), or the Waltham Black Act, as it was actually called, has arisen from work by Pat Rogers and E. P. Thompson. It was an act of exceptional severity, making no less than some fifty new offenses capital, and its origins have been debated by legal as well as by political historians. While Rogers stressed the criminality of the Blacks, Thompson set the act in a sociohistorical context, su…
Literary Transmission and Authority
Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary historian to provide a conception of periods, and what would now be termed a comparatist. This 1993 book look…
The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson
A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-cen
Fire under the Ashes
In Johnson’s ‘Life of Addison’, at the point where strict biography ends and the survey of works begins, he reminds himself of the hazards of writing about ‘contemporaries’ or near contemporaries. ‘I begin to feel myself walking upon ashes under which fire is not extinguished , and coming to the time of which it will be proper rather, to say nothing that is false, than all that is true ’ (98; III, p. 18). 1 These words, italicized by Johnson, are…
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