The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author : John Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 1787
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Author : John Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 1787
Category : Authors, English
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Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 1826
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Adam Sisman
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Authors, Scottish
ISBN : 9780007234295
With great wit, Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task--the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces the friendship between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell's seven-year struggle to write "The Life of Samuel Johnson."
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0300258003
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.
Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1904915507
Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 1819
Category : English poetry
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Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0297856162
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1831
Category :
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Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903385838
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Hebrides
ISBN :