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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... hero as man of letters , " 13 overcoming all obstacles until he ruled the literary world by force of genius . The emblem of his fierce independence and inevitable tri- umph was the letter to Chesterfield . The hero had achieved his ...
... hero on the brink of middle age , still dream- ing about a future that he might not live to see . A similar postponement marks the book as a whole ; unfulfilled or disappointed expectations drive the plot . Even the opening para- graph ...
... Hero as Man of Letters , " in On Heroes , Hero - Worship , and the Heroic in History ( 1841 ) , ed . Michael K. Gold- berg ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 ) , p . 134 . 1. Works 10 : 55 , 51 . 2. Life of Savage , ed ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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