“Who is so patient of the foolish [wicked] city, so iron-willed, as to contain himself?”
Two of the early works of by the young Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) that established his reputation are not completely original to him. Instead they are imitations of works by ancient authors.
An imitation was popular form in Johnson's era. It meant a loose adaption or the original work , not being a strict translation but rewritten in updated language with contemporary subjects and themes.
Johnson's 1749 poem London, for. example, is such an imitation of an ancient Roman author's work.
Name the original author and work:
b. Juvenal, Third Satire
c. Virgil, Aeneid
d. Horace, Odes II.14
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