Author: John Ker SpittalPublisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers
Author: John Ker SpittalPublisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers
Author: John Ker SpittalPublisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers
Author: John Ker SpittalContemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Author: John K. SpittalContemporary Criticisms of Doctor Samuel Johnson His Works, and His Biographers
Author: John K. SpittalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780841478602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Samuel Johnson
Author: Peter MartinPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0297856162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
A Brief History of the Criticism of Dr. Johnson
Author: Robert Nelson LassSamuel Johnson
Author: Jeffrey MeyersPublisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
ISBN: 1904915507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.
Samuel Johnson
Author: James James Lowry CliffordPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452911564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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