Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Littell's Living Age, Vol. 53: April, May, June, 1857
A few weeks after J ohnson had entered on these obscure labors, he published a worls which at once placed him high among the writers of his age. It is probable that what he had suffered during his first year in London, had often reminded him of some parts of that noble poem in which J uvenal had described the misery and degradation of a needy man of letters, lodged among the pigeons' nests in the tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome. Pope's ad mirable imitations of Horace's Satires and Epistles had recently appeared, were in every hand, and were by many readers thought superior to the originals. What Pope had done for Horace, Johnson aspired to do for J usenal. The enterprise was bold, and yet judicious. For between Johnson and Juve nal there was much in common - much more, certainly, than between Pope and Horace.
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