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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... whole intended as a Course of ancient and modern Learning , Extracted from the best Au- thors - suggests its ... whole world of knowledge.27 Chambers concedes his dependence on other writers . A work like the Cyclopaedia is " not the ...
... whole in the part and the part in the whole , a unified Hamlet held in the mind not mechanically but through leaps of imaginative sympathy . I know no better way to read or to teach others to read . In my more sanguine moments , indeed ...
... whole . Lesser authors have sometimes written better poems , better fiction , and certainly better plays . If Johnson had never lived , others would have produced their versions of the Eng- lish Dictionary , editions of Shakespeare ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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