Samuel JohnsonHarvard University Press, 1998 - 372 pages He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author." |
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... ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1905 ) David Nichol Smith and E. L. McAdam Jr. , eds . , The Poems of Samuel Johnson , 2d ed . ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1974 ) The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson ( New Haven : Yale University ...
... Oxford University Press , 1929 ) . 4. The relation of the " Scheme " to the Plan is discussed by James H. Sledd and Gwin J. Kolb , Dr. Johnson's Dictionary : Essays in the Biography of a Book ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press ...
... ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1965 ) , pp . 137-158 ; and Lawrence Lipking , “ Quick Poetic Eyes : Another Look at Literary Pictorialism , " in Articulate Images , ed . Richard Wendorf ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1983 ) ...
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the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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