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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... leave of the city . Most of the satire of London bursts from the mouth of indignant Thales , a disillusioned and impoverished older man who is quitting the town for the country and saying his farewells to a younger friend . His lack of ...
... leaves its hero on the brink of middle age , still dream- ing about a future that he might not live to see . A ... leaving the Valley and seeing the world , and that a sequel could always retain the option of a happy ending , with the ...
... leave him to his Judge . " 12 Hence the survivors must make what they will of the dead , piecing together ambiguous ... leaving it ... It is delightful to see him set , as it were , his dying seal to the professions of his life , and to ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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