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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... Rambler , nonetheless adopts his tone when she complains to him : " I had not in myself any fund of satisfac- tion with which I could supply the loss of my customary amuse- ments " ( 3 : 230 ) . Nor was the Rambler willing to share his ...
... Rambler 14 , for instance , fails to exploit the rich comic potential of a meeting between a starry- eyed reader and an obnoxious author . Instead , as Bate has sug- gested , Johnson writes satire manqué , “ a kind of double action in ...
Lawrence Lipking. 21. Rambler 96 , Works 4 : 149–152 . 22. Lives 2 : 149. The whole passage , on Addison as a teacher of wisdom , shows how closely Johnson associates his own allegorical mode , as exem- plified by Rambler 96 , with ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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