Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Works 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.
Johnson on the English Language
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300106726
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Debates in Parliament: Dec. 1,1741-Feb. 23, 1743
Author: Samuel JohnsonEssays 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 Club
Author: Leo DamroschPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300244967
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Facts and Inventions
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210949
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
James Boswell (1740–1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell’s journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.
The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson (écrivain.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300123142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Johnson on Shakespeare
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Yale Companion to Chaucer
Author: Seth LererPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300125979
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A collection of essays on Chaucer's poetry, this guide provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history.