Author: James Lowry CliffordPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Johnsonian News Letter
Author: James Lowry CliffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A Johnsonian News Letter
Author: Johnsonian News Letter
Author: James Lowry CliffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Burke Newsletter
Author: The Complete Poems of Samuel Johnson
Author: Robert D. BrownPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003813054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1023
Book Description
This definitive edition, the first since 1974, presents all the poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), including his play, Irene, with detailed, wide-ranging commentary. It has been expertly edited with attention to the extant manuscripts and all relevant printings. The volume includes the entirety of Johnson’s verse in all its generic diversity: including satire, ode, elegy, verse drama, and verse prayer. The poems are presented in their original spelling and punctuation with extensive commentary on their literary background—biblical, classical, and modern—as well as careful explanation of unusual words, allusions to historical figures, and references to contemporary events that appear in the poems. Proceeding chronologically, this edition also situates Johnson’s verse in the context of his life from his early days in Lichfield to his career as an author in London. Unlike all earlier editions, the present offering provides full translations of all the Latin and Greek poems on which Johnson based so much of his English verse. Correspondingly, it provides the English poems which some of his Latin verse translates. Neither in the presentation of the verse nor in the commentary does this edition assume a command of foreign languages: it aims to be useful for all students of Samuel Johnson’s poetry.
A Clubbable Man
Author: Anthony W. LeePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684483506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s Rambler, while Cedric D. Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope. Contributors take up other topics significant to the field, including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes from Clingham’s former students and colleagues, including original poetry.
A Seventeenth Century News Letter
Author: Burke Newsletter
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Facts and Inventions
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300141262
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
James Boswell (1740–1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell’s journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.
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