Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson. Poems
Author : Samuel Johnson
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File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 1810
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Author : Samuel Johnson
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File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 1810
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Author : Samuel Johnson
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Page : 450 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Robert D. Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 16,3 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 : Samuel Johnson
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1810
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Author : Norma Clarke
Publisher : Random House
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1446475719
Dr Johnson's friendships with the leading women writers of the day was an important feature of his life and theirs. He was willing to treat women as intellectual equals and to promote their careers: something ignored by his main biographer, James Boswell. Dr Johnson's Women investigates the lives and writings of six leading female authors Johnson knew well: Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Thrale, Hannah More and Fanny Burney. It explores their relationships with Johnson, with each other and with the world of letters. It shows what it was like to be a woman writer in the 'Age of Johnson'. It is often assumed that women writers in the eighteenth century suffered the same restrictions and obstacles that confronted their Victorian successors. Norma Clarke shows that this was by no means the case. Highlighting the opportunities available to women of talent in the eighteenth century, Dr Johnson's Women makes clear just how impressive and varied their achievements were.
Author : Samuel Johnson
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1819
Category : English poetry
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Author : Thomas Gray
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 1816
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Author : Samuel Johnson
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1834
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File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1684480221
This collection explores relationships between Samual Johnson and several of his main contemporaries--James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton--and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships.