Author: Whitwell ElwinPublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
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"Papers by Or Concerning Whitwell Elwin, with Other Papers Concerning the "Quarterly Review"
Author: Whitwell Elwin"Two Articles on James Boswell and Samuel Johnson by Whitwell Elwin, Each Extracted from the "Quarterly Review"
Author: Whitwell ElwinPublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
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"Elwin's articles on Boswell and Johnson were published in the "Quarterly Review" in March 1854 and January 1859. The articles have been bound together in cloth covers and interleaved. Many of the pages have been marked with corrections and alterations. Certain passages have been re-worked on the interleaves. The articles were republished in Elwin's, "Some XVIII century men of letters", under the following introduction: "Dr Johnson was Whitwell Elwin's favourite literary character, and Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson" his favourite book. Early in 1857, when he was looking out for some work which would divert his mind from domestic sorrow, he proposed "Boswell and Johnson" to Murray, as a subject for an article. Soon after this he was on a visit to John Forster, in London, and the latter suggested to him that it would be useful to explain how such a "trivial creature" as Boswell seemed, had been able to bring out "the gravity and wisdom of Johnson" as he had done in his celebrated Life. Elwin did this in a paper, which appeared in the Quarterly Review of March, 1858, under the title of "Boswell - early Life of Johnson." The literary part of Johnson's life was reserved for a sequel, called "The Life and Writings of Johnson", published in January, 1859. This second article especially attracted attention, and the praise it received induced Murray to express a wish to bring out the two essays in a separate form. Elwin took to the idea, but he did not work at it definitely till 1863, when he began a systematic revision, which amounted almost to rewriting the first article at considerably greater length. He then paused in his task, and did not resume it, so that the second paper was left with only some occasional additions. As, however, it was originally cast on a somewhat larger scheme than the first, this does not make any serious disproportion between the scale of the two, which are now printed together, in the shape in which he finally left them. ...". "To his revised version Elwin appended copious references. The editions he used were Boswell's "Johnson", with [John Wilson] Croker's additions, I vol., 1860; the Johnsoniana, in the 1835 edition of Boswell; "Johnson's Works", by Murphy, ed. 1801; Cunningham's edition of the "Lives of the Poets" 1854. ..."
The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdThe Spectator
Author: Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Author: Lewis MelvillePublisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
John Payne Collier
Author: Arthur FreemanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300096615
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1543
Book Description
John Payne Collier (1789–1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. Arthur and Janet Freeman reassess the scholar-forger's long life, milieu, and relations with a large circle of associates and rivals while presenting a chronological bibliography of his extensive publications, all fully annotated with regard to their creditability. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life.
Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Laurel BrakePublisher: Academia Press
ISBN: 9038213409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1059
Book Description
A large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th-Century Britain.
Dictionary of National Biography. Supplement
Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
First supplement to the original Dictionary of national biography published in 63 vols., 1885-1900.