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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... young person hungers for them . Johnson's first writing already aspires to glory . The second phenomenon , bending back against the first and dark- ening it with irony , is a sort of preemptive dejection . The poet and his theme must ...
... young poets they would have sounded a death knell . More than one generation of British poets elected Pope their ... Young . Young was a good poet , perhaps a great one , but not too good . His collection of satires , Love of Fame , The ...
... Young behind . Yet becoming an author would not be so easy . Young's satire of the virgin - author and Settle occurs in the first of Two Epistles to Mr. Pope , Concerning the Authors of the Age ( 1730 ) , and it continues the savage ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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