Question

write a critique on boswells pross style​

Answer 1

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Explanation:

By describing Samuel Johnson as a man with a prose style, W. K. Wimsatt attributed to him a systematic and forceful personality, even going so far as to judge Johnson "the last great Neoclassicist." Recent critics have not admitted how their portrait of Johnson differs with Wimsatt's, preferring to cite The Prose Style of Samuel Johnson but then to describe Johnson as a flexible, inconsistent man — a man with prose styles. Their description of Johnson as tormented by self-doubt, self-conflicts, and neuroses recently has become standard. But is it accurate? The question of whether Johnson has a style or styles is basic to our assessment of his personality. An analysis of Johnsonian passages widely separated in both date and subject places Wimsatt's work vis-à-vis that of more recent scholars, defines the virtues and the drawbacks of Wimsatt's legacy to Johnson studies, and reveals how largely the contemporary portrait of Johnson mirrors, not Johnson, but ourselves.