Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. With the Life of the Author
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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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.
The Lives of the English Poets
Author: The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson
Author: William Prideaux CourtneyPublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. Complete in One Volume
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson's Eternal Return
Author: Martin RikerPublisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895367
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel’s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker’s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world. Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, London Review of Books, the Baffler, and Conjunctions. This is his first novel.
Samuel 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.
Author: Samuel Johnson