Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 594
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Beauties of Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe beauties of Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. ... A New Edition
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].
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Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL D. Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... to which are how Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor ...
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300258003
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.
Samuel Johnson
Author: W. Jackson BatePublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1582435243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out as a Grub Street journalist, he made his mark on history as a poet, author, moralist, literary critic, political commentator, and lexiconographer. We, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen. Professor W. Jackson Bate is a lyrical writer who deftly explains the effect Johnson has had on scholars, critics, and readers of all kinds through the past 200 years: "The reason Johnson has always fascinated so many people of different kinds," Bate writes, "is not simply that [he] is so vividly picturesque and quotable . . . The deeper secret of his hypnotic attraction, especially during our own generation, lies in the immense reassurance he gives to human nature." Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's intellect and fueled his prodigious contribution to literature, religion, politics, and our understanding of the nature of humankind, revealing the fascinating nature — both odd and adored — of this literary luminary.