Lawrence Lipking

Biographic Data

ID257556
NAMELawrence Lipking
GIVEN NAMESLawrence
FAMILY NAMELipking
SIGNATURELIPKING L
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX2

  • The View from Almada Hill: Myths of Nationhood in Camões and William Julius Mickle

    Open AccessLawrence LipkingARTICLEPortuguese Literary and Cultural…2016

    Myths of nationhood sustain both Os Lusíadas and W.J. Mickle's very popular and influential version of it, The Lusiad (1776). But what Camões transmitted to Mickle was not only a sense of the destiny of his nation but also its deep-seated contradictions. Just as 16th-century Portugal peculiarly combined feudal and mercantile values, so did 18th-century Scotland, and in converting an epic of humanism into an epic of commerce, liberty, and civiliza…

  • Johnson and Genius

    Lawrence LipkingCHAPTERSamuel Johnson2012

    During the eighteenth century ‘genius’ began to refer less to some special talent (Newton had a genius for mathematics) than to someone who surpassed the ordinary scope of human beings (Newton was a genius). Johnson resists both definitions. True genius reflects ‘a mind of large general powers,’ he writes, not any particular aptitude; and a genius relies on knowing the use of tools, not on some quasi-divine inspiration. This topic often exposes t…

  • Classical Literary Careers and their Reception

    Open AccessMichael C J Putnam, Stephen Harrison et al.BOOKClassical Literary Careers and…2010

    This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…

  • Chess Minds and Critical Moves

    Lawrence Lipking, Lawrence I LipkingARTICLENew Literary History2003

    "YOU HAVE A CHESS MIND," someone tells me after my poetry lecture.This is at best a highly ambiguous compliment. For one thing, I know that my chess mind is far from stellar. Although I can still impress a novice with old routines—for instance, by playing a game without sight of the board or by finding combinations at a glance—my current strength has dropped slightly below that of a master; the woods are full of young whelps who can wear me down.…

  • Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

    Joan Trodden Keefe, Lawrence LipkingARTICLEWorld Literature Today1989

  • Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays

    Lawrence Lipking, Isobel GrundyARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1987

  • The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers

    Stuart Curran, Lawrence LipkingARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1984

  • Aristotle's Sister: A Poetics of Abandonment

    Lawrence LipkingARTICLECritical Inquiry1983Cited by: 10References: 1

  • "Comments on Jehlen's "Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism

    Elaine Showalter, Sue Warrick Doederlein et al.ARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…1982

  • [Do Reasons Matter in Criticism? Or: [Many Meanings, Many Modes]: Response

    Lawrence LipkingARTICLEThe Bulletin of the Midwest…1981

  • Arguing with Shelly

    Lawrence LipkingARTICLECritical Inquiry1979Cited by: 1

  • The Marginal Gloss

    Lawrence LipkingARTICLECritical Inquiry1977Cited by: 7

  • Learning to read Johnson: The Vision of Theodore and the Vanity of Human Wishes

    Lawrence LipkingARTICLEELH1976

  • The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England

    Hoyt Trowbridge, Lawrence LipkingARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1971

  • Periods in the Arts: Sketches and Speculations

    Lawrence LipkingARTICLENew Literary History1970

    most representative of English neoclassic critics.' The balance and decorum of the Discourses, their high respect for the lessons of the past, their eloquent rationality, their quest for a standard of taste founded on general nature, approach a perfect literary statement of the neoclassical ideal. Yet according to historians of art, is not a neoclassical artist. A recent study of English Neoclassical Art concedes him a few pages, on the grounds t…