Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorHarvard University Press, 2009 M07 1 - 384 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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... Rasselas 173 8. The Theater of Mind : The Plays of William Shakespeare 198 9. Journeying Westward : Political Writings ; A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland 234 10. Touching the Shore : The Lives of the English Poets 259 11 ...
... Rasselas , for instance , the preemptive dejection often takes effect so quickly that a reader has no time to entertain hope ; each flower is nipped in the bud . Notoriously the book , though writ- ten to instruct the young , touches ...
... Rasselas . As the logical choice to com- pile the first standard English dictionary , Addison is supposed to have been offered £ 3,000 by Tonson and actually to have begun the work.14 Johnson defended Addison's literary criticism for ...
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Contents
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Preferments Gate The Vanity of Human Wishes | 86 |
Man of Letters A Dictionary of the English Language | 103 |
The Living World The Rambler | 145 |
Reclaiming Imagination Rasselas | 173 |
The Theater of Mind The Plays of William Shakespeare | 198 |
Journeying Westward Political Writings A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
Touching the Shore The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
The Life to Come Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Abbreviation | 307 |
Notes | 309 |
Index | 363 |