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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... standard English dictionary , Addison is supposed to have been offered £ 3,000 by Tonson and actually to have begun the work.1 Johnson defended Addison's literary criticism for awakening inquiry and expanding comprehension : “ he founds ...
... standard works . Bell had to be taken seriously . His twenty- one - volume edition of British Theatre ( 1776-1781 ) had already begun to compete successfully with the London trade's twelve - volume New English Theatre ( 1776–77 ) ; an ...
... standard account of this period in Johnson's life is James Clifford , Dictionary Johnson ( New York : McGraw - Hill , 1979 ) . 9. Plan , p . 121 . 10. See , for instance , Paul Fussell , Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing ( New York ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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