In a recent work of scholarship, Christine Rees, observes that Johnson 'is hinting at Miltonic phrase and simile'.14 She specifically refers to the lines, 'and of pure now purer air/ Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires/ Vernal delight and joy, able to drive/ All sadness but despair'.15 Johnson's line certainly appears to echo Milton's, indeed, the Miltonic theme of the pastoral as paradise, set against the city as a harbour of vice, reverberates throughout London, and as Rees argues, 'Johnson knows the value of 'images which find a mirrour ...

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avan...

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