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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... ideas . " Eliot regards the ideas of The Vanity of Human Wishes as so many commonplaces , and Pound says that " by and large the poem is bun- combe . Human wishes are not vain in the least . " 20 Such opinions tell us more about their ...
... ideas , " whereas “ a true Poet makes us imagine that we see [ the object ] before our eyes . 25 The Vanity of Human Wishes barrages the reader with mov- ing and vital ideas , more concrete than the world of shadows where most of us ...
... ideas ? did one simple meaning underlie all the others ? A popular school of thought , developed from hints by Locke , traced every word to a specific material cause or sensory impression ( what Locke calls " sensible Ideas ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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