Author: Clarissa RinakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Thomas Warton
Author: Clarissa RinakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Joseph and Thomas Warton
Author: John A. VancePublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar
Author: Peter MartinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521460309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.
Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
Author: Roger LonsdalePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191570745
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2220
Book Description
Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume three of four.
Life of Edmond Malone with Selection from His Manuscript Anecdotes
Author: James PriorDeception and Detection in Eighteenth-century Britain
Author: John T. LynchPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754665281
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. While taking up the critical philosophical questions surrounding fraud, Lynch shows that fakery takes us to the heart of eighteenth-century values as they relate to evidence, perception and memory, the relationship between art and life, historicism, and human motivation.
The Three Wartons
Author: Thomas WartonPublisher: Books for Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation
Author: Thomas WartonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation" by Thomas Warton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Index of English Literary Manuscripts
Author: Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 072012283X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This volume, the third in the series, discusses the works of 11 British 18th-century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use of the MS, and the existence of any published facsimiles. Information is drawn from material in libraries, record offices and private collections throughout the world. The listing of each author's manuscripts is preceded by an introduction. The book records many hitherto unrecorded manuscripts.
Author: Sir James Prior