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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... Dream of hope , " he had already been making his living as a hack writer for ten years without any " favours from the Great . " In fact he knew such dreams were laughable . An essay he wrote for The Adventurer in 1753 , on " The Age of ...
... dream . A Virgin - Author , recent from the Press , The sheets yet wet , applauds his great Success ; Surveys them ... dreams were Settle's once , and Ogilby's.33 Elkanah Settle ( 1648-1724 ) , the official city poet of London during ...
... dreams are made on ; the largest mind has room for many dreams . Moreover , it reaches too high . Of all Johnson's doubts about Shakespeare , none causes him more concern than the dreams of greatness that run through the plays ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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