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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... principles that shape the book can furnish an entrance into the mind of its author . There are two main ways of describing those principles . Roughly speaking , they correspond to process and product , the difference be- tween viewing ...
... principles as arbitrary and contingent as ABC . In another way it is more , since it takes account not only of ideas but of the history that modifies them.68 The principles implicit in the Dictionary seem more complex , and perhaps more ...
... principles , 201-207 , 213 , 216-217 , 221-226 ; editorial principles , 218-219 , 231-232 ; response to patriotism , 219-221 ; doubts about greatness , 226-229 ; moral principles , 230-231 The Rambler , 22 , 42-45 , 242 , 245-246 , 302 ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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