1. Samuel Johnson's Criticism of Paradise Lost
Weinbrot comments that 'such a view of Juvenal's poem has little to recommend it'.5 However, Umbritius' rustic vision which Susanna Morton Braund translates as, 'here you'll have a little garden and a well so shallow it doesn't need a rope [] it's something wherever you are [] to make yourself master of a single lizard',6 does not seem like an overwhelmingly attractive prospect, and could indeed be considered ironic. I believe that simpler, more obvious irony is evident in other parts of 'Satire III'. ... Yet, in sections such as the on...
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