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READING THE "RELIGIOUS" LANGUAGE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON'S SERMONS.(Critical Essay)
From: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
Date: 19990622
Author:Kass, Thomas G.
Rhetorical devices and 'religious' language in Samuel Johnson's Sermons are discussed. Topics include Johnson's deviations from conventional sermon style, the relation of his sermons to his general aesthetic principles and skeptical tendencies, and the beliefs reflected in his sermon style.
THE importance and popularity that the sermon once held in the secular as well as in the religious life of England is often underestimated today. Samuel Johnson claimed that he wrote approximately forty sermons; of these, twenty-eight are extant and have been attributed to him.(1) The only ...
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