Howard Erskine‐Hill

Biographic Data

ID5841989
NAMEHoward Erskine‐Hill
GIVEN NAMESHoward
FAMILY NAMEErskine‐Hill
SIGNATUREHILL H E
AFFILIATIONSSwansea University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson

    Open AccessHoward Erskine‐Hill, Jonathan Clark et al.BOOKInterpretation of Samuel Johnson2012

    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

    Open AccessHoward Erskine‐Hill, Howard Erskine-HillCHAPTERInterpretation of Samuel Johnson2012

    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…

  • The Augustan Idea in English Literature

    Ray Peterson, R G Peterson et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1985

  • The Waltham Black Act and Jacobitism

    Open AccessEveline Cruickshanks, Howard Erskine‐Hill et al.ARTICLEJournal of British Studies1985Cited by: 3References: 4

    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

    Howard Erskine‐Hill, Howard Erskine-HillARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1981

    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

    G S Rousseau, John Butt et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1980

  • Antony and Octavius

    Howard Erskine‐HillARTICLERenaissance and Modern Studies1970References: 1

  • Augustans on Augustanism

    Howard Erskine‐HillARTICLERenaissance and Modern Studies1967References: 1

    (1967). Augustans on Augustanism: England, 1655–1759. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 55-83

  • The Medal against Time

    Howard Erskine‐Hill, Howard Erskine-HillARTICLEJournal of the Warburg and…1965Cited by: 1

  • The ‘new world’ of pope's dunciad 1

    Howard Erskine‐Hill, H H Erskine‐HillARTICLERenaissance and Modern Studies1962