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Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson.

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20020101
Author:Ingram, Allan

Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson By David F. Venturo. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 335 pp. 38 [pounds sterling].

Almost seventy years, David Venturo reminds us, have elapsed since T. S. Eliot pronounced Johnson a major poet `without any book yet appearing' that deals solely with his poetry (p. 17). One of the virtues of this detailed and fascinating volume is how convincingly it makes us aware of what we have been missing. Indeed, we overlook so much of Johnson's poetic output, thinking in general ...

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