Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Essays of Samuel Johnson
Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300000160
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This selection of the cream of the writing from Volumes II-V of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson fills the largest remaining gap in easily available eighteenth-century texts for the student and general reader. The edition provides in popular form the amplest selection available of Johnson’s essays, ranging from his great moral pieces to the valuable essays on literary criticisms. The text is that of the authoritative Yale Edition and includes full annotation. An introduction by W.J. Bate provides a concise summary of the publication history of the essays and probes in detail the moral vision that pervades most of them. Mr. Bate is Lowell Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and joint editor of Volumes II-V of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson.
The Idler
Author: S. JohnsonSelect Essays of Dr. Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: London : J.M. Dent
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Selected Essays
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014196054X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of Johnson's later journalism, including essays from the periodicals 'The Adventurer' and 'The Idler'.
Samuel 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.
New Essays on Samuel Johnson
Author: Anthony W. LeePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611496799
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and intertextuality, Johnson and autobiography). The word “revaluation” from the title connotes both the deployment of specifically au courant approaches—viewing, for example, Johnson in relation to climate change, or Johnson and the notion of “osmology”—as well as more general reflections upon Johnson’s importance to our present cultural and temporal moment.
The Essays of Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonAn Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: Arthur MurphyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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Author: Samuel Johnson