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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... instance , as Blackmore wrote a thing called King Arthur . Such distinctions matter greatly to Johnson the critic , who holds that " the highest praise of genius is original invention " and that Paradise Lost " is not the great- est of ...
... instance , the clever early indictment of London's dangers ( lines 17-18 ) : Here falling Houses thunder on your Head , And here a female Atheist talks you dead . The first line hardly challenges a reader . Houses did fall in ancient ...
... instance , Leopold Damrosch , Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1972 ) , pp . 109-138 . 14. Allen Reddick , The Making of Johnson's Dictionary , 1746–1773 ( Cam- bridge : Cambridge University ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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