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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... choice of life is be- come less important ; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity " " ( chap . 48 ) . Perspectives continually vary . In this respect the progress of the book , for Johnson if not for his hero , might ...
... choice of life ? At times he preferred to think of him- self as drifting , not quite committed to any profession , as if in the miraculously prolonged adolescence of Rasselas ( and Imlac ) , always delaying the choice to some indefinite ...
... Choice of Her- cules " has been studied by Erwin Panofsky , Hercules am Scheidewege ( Leipzig and Berlin , 1930 ) ... Choice " ( Letters 1 : 11-12 ) . 33. Carey McIntosh notes that Johnson makes choice " the dominating theme of both these ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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