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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... Samuel Johnson has been a prize biograph- ical subject . He fanned the interest first with his own writings , which drop faint personal hints that have proved more intriguing than many bold confessions . Once he was gone , the trickle ...
... Johnson's tastes in poetry . 36. Lives 2 : 229–230 . 37. This power of healing is a central concern of Walter Jackson Bate , The Achievement of Samuel Johnson ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1955 ) . 38. Poems , p . 280 . 39 ...
Lawrence Lipking. his discussion of authors and genius in Samuel Johnson's Literary Criticism , pp . 38-55 . 65. Rasselas , chap . 44 ; Works 16 : 150 . 66. Works 8 : 767. G. F. Parker concludes Johnson's Shakespeare with an analysis of ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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