Anec Late Sam Johnson
Author : Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 1975-03-01
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ISBN : 9780824012960
Author : Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 1975-03-01
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ISBN : 9780824012960
Author : J. Clark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1137264721
A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'
Author : James James Lowry Clifford
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 1970-01-01
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ISBN : 9781452911564
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher : London : Printed for T. Cadell
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 1786
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Frank Brady
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 1978-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520905997
This is a major new selection of Samuel Johnson's best work, delightfully introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and scrupulously annotated by Frank Brady and Mr. Wimsatt. Samuel Johnson, the only writer in English since the Renaissance to give his name to a literary period, was the center of English letters in his time. He was Dictionary Johnson, the lexicographer who had single-handedly settled the English language (it was hoped) on a firm basis; he was the author of a handful of fine poems, including two of the most remarkable satires of the century; he was a moralist whose Rambler and Idler essays, and novel-of-ideas Rasselas, provided a searching view of men and matters. And in his final years he produced his greatest work, that extraordinary combination of biography and criticism which came to be known as the Lives of the Poets. This first extensive anthology of Johnson's writings to be published in many years emphasizes Johnson the writer. It responds to those aspects of Johnson's work of special interest to modern readers. It comprises a selection of Johnson's letters, all of his major poems (including London), Rasselas, twenty-one Rambler, nineteen Idlers, the Prefaces to the Dictionary and to the edition of Shakespeare, and the following Lives of the Poets: Cowley, Milton, Swift, Pope, Savage, Collins, and Gray. All these works are extensively annotated and printed complete. Mr. Wimsatt, one of the outstanding Johnsonians of this century, provides in his Introduction a clear, connected biographical account of Johnson, stressing his writings. An up-to-date bibliography is also included. Johnson's varied accomplishments—as poet, as moralist, as biographer, as critic—are all amply represented.
Author : Robert D. Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1003813054
This definitive edition, the first since 1974, presents all the poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), including his play, Irene, with detailed, wide-ranging commentary. It has been expertly edited with attention to the extant manuscripts and all relevant printings. The volume includes the entirety of Johnson’s verse in all its generic diversity: including satire, ode, elegy, verse drama, and verse prayer. The poems are presented in their original spelling and punctuation with extensive commentary on their literary background—biblical, classical, and modern—as well as careful explanation of unusual words, allusions to historical figures, and references to contemporary events that appear in the poems. Proceeding chronologically, this edition also situates Johnson’s verse in the context of his life from his early days in Lichfield to his career as an author in London. Unlike all earlier editions, the present offering provides full translations of all the Latin and Greek poems on which Johnson based so much of his English verse. Correspondingly, it provides the English poems which some of his Latin verse translates. Neither in the presentation of the verse nor in the commentary does this edition assume a command of foreign languages: it aims to be useful for all students of Samuel Johnson’s poetry.
Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611496799
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.
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
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Author : James Boswell
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 1900
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