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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... According to Greene no set of labels - least of all the label Tory - can do justice to " Johnson's rig- orously empirical approach to the facts of political power as it actu- ally exists . " 25 According to Clark three labels - Tory ...
... According to Dustin Griffin , " Johnson is ultimately concerned with the patronage system not as an economic or political arrangement , but as an oc- casion for moral reflection " ; Literary Patronage , p . 238 . 39. Paul Fussell ...
... According to J. C. D. Clark , Samuel Johnson ( Cambridge : Cam- bridge University Press , 1994 ) , the Lives defends an already fading Anglo- Latin tradition ( Clark ignores the fact that Johnson's own additions , with the exception of ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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