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Author : Walter Jackson Bate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916236256
Author : Walter Jackson Bate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:13850535
Author : Walter Jackson Bate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490011629
Author : W Jackson Bate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0318759950
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141907437
In Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson’s Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, we owe our knowledge of the man himself to this biography. Through a series of wonderfully detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure with a huge appetite for life, crossing swords with other great eighteenth-century luminaries, from Garrick and Goldsmith to Burney and Burke – even his long-suffering friend and disciple James Boswell. Yet Johnson had a vulnerable, even tragic, side and anxieties and obsessions haunted his private hours. Boswell’s sensitivity and insight into every facet of his subject’s character ultimately make this biography as moving as it is entertaining. Based on the 1799 edition, Christopher Hibbert’s abridgement preserves the integrity of the original, while his fascinating introduction sets Boswell’s view of Samuel Johnson against that of others of the time.
Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297856160
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0140431160
The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more At the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the powerful, troubled and witty figure of Samuel Johnson, who towers above them all. Yet this is also an intimate picture of domestic life, which mingles the greatest talkers of a talkative age with the hero's humbler friends in a picture which is, before all things, humane. As a young man about London, James Boswell was obsessed by literature, and, on a fateful day in 1763, he attached himself with unswerving tenacity to the dominant literary figure of his age—the splendidly rotund, articulate, and humane Dr Samuel Johnson. What followed was the most famous of friendships between writers and the bais for the remarkable documentation contained in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, the greatest and most compelling of all biographies. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Robert DeMaria Jr.,Robert DeMaria
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801854798
In Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, Robert DeMaria considers the surprising influence of one of the greatest readers in English literature. Johnson's relationship to books not only reveals much about his life and times, DeMaria contends, but also provides a dramatic counterpoint to modern reading habits. As a superior practitioner of the craft, Johnson provides a compelling model for how to read—indeed, he provides different models for different kinds of reading. DeMaria shows how Johnson recognized early that not all reading was alike—some requiring intense concentration, some suited for cursory glances, some requiring silence, some best appreciated amid the chatter of a coffeehouse. Considering the remarkable range of Johnson's reading, DeMaria discovers in one extraordinary career a synoptic view of the subject. "Enacts Johnson's celebrated variation on a theme from Horace—it does not merely delight and instruct, but rather instructs by delighting us . . . DeMaria proves himself a reader altogether worthy of his subject."—Times Literary Supplement "Fascinatingly perceptive both of Johnson's own reading habits and of their significance in the cultural history of reading."—Modern Language Review "Both a scholarly and an imaginative achievement, combining detailed detective work, abstract categorization, and sympathetic understanding. The finished product re-creates the detailed fabric of Johnson's reading career while locating it in a cultural landscape of rapid publication and growing literacy . . . Eminently readable, learned, and thoughtful."—Modern Philology "An intellectual history of the writer and his age."—Magill's Literary Annual "DeMaria presents an imaginative re-creation of Johnson's library and suggests how his reading habits offered a model for preventing the disappearance of the reader."—Biblio
Author : Greg Clingham,Philip Smallwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521888219
To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth in 2009, the specially-commissioned essays contained here review his scholarly reputation. An international team of experts reflects authoritatively on the various dimensions of literary, historical, critical and ethical life touched by Johnson's extraordinary achievement. The volume distinctively casts its net widely and combines consistently innovative thinking on Johnson's historical role with a fresh sense of present criticism. Chapters cover subjects as diverse as Johnson's moral philosophy, his legal thought, his influence on Jane Austen, and the question of the Johnson canon. The contributors examine the larger theoretical and scholarly contexts in which it is now possible to situate his work, and from which it may often be necessary to differentiate it. All the contributors have a distinguished record of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies, Johnson scholarship, and cultural history and theory.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9781425048839
A fascinating biographical account of Samuel Johnson's. Mainly based on his letters, it elegantly entwines the details of his personal life with that of his career. Truly Captivating!...
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106010172440
Samuel Johnson has remarked wisely on almost every topic pertinent to the noble cause of human living. This treasure trove of wisdom and inspiration from Johnson's writings--on everything from Asceticism to Ambition, Failure to Forgiveness, Hypocrisy to Holiness, Vanity to Virtue--offers a vision of suffering overcome and a life lived manfully, thankfully, and generously. Foreword by Joseph Sobran.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HXG8HL
Author : Ed. David Womersley James Boswell
Publisher : Lane, Allen
Page : 1408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0713992018
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300258004
A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409932338
Samuel Johnson (often referred to as Dr Johnson) (1709-1784) was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and political conservative, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history." He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature" James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
