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Author : Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0022795880
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1420950630
As a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson's contributions to English literature cannot be understated. His single greatest achievement is widely considered to be his "Dictionary of the English Language," which after nine years of research was first published in 1755. Until the publication of the "Oxford English Dictionary" over a century and a half later it was widely considered to be the preeminent dictionary of the English language. The work brought him much fame and success and had a profound impact on modern English literature. Johnson's contributions to the periodicals "The Rambler" and "The Idler" are considered to be some of the greatest examples of literary criticism of all time. This collection includes some of the best examples of his essays from those periodicals as well as a representative selection of his poetry, prose as well as his famous allegorical novel "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia." Readers of this volume will most assuredly agree that Johnson was a writer of immense talent whose genius is exhibited by the sheer breadth of his body of work.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1404734953
Author : David Nokes
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429939140
A modern biography of Samuel Johnson that will serve as the definitive work on the legendary British man of letters In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, David Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work. This is the story of how Johnson struggled to define the English language, why he embarked upon such foolhardiness, and where he found the courage to do so. Moving beyond James Boswell's seminal narrative about the life of the preeminent eighteenth-century novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor, essayist, and lexicographer, this biography addresses his life and action through the hitherto unexplored perspectives of such major players as Johnson's wife, Tetty; Hester Thrale, in whose household he resided for seventeen years while working on his annotated Shakespeare; and Frances Barber, the black manservant who in many ways was like a son to Johnson. An in-depth interrogation of the primary sources, particularly the letters, offer surprising insight into Johnson's formative experiences. At last, here's a reading of the great man that will reveal the rightful glory of an enduring work and an incomparable scholar.
Author : Robert DeMaria Jr.,Robert DeMaria
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : W. Jackson Bate
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582435244
Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out as a Grub Street journalist, he made his mark on history as a poet, author, moralist, literary critic, political commentator, and lexiconographer. We, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen. Professor W. Jackson Bate is a lyrical writer who deftly explains the effect Johnson has had on scholars, critics, and readers of all kinds through the past 200 years: "The reason Johnson has always fascinated so many people of different kinds," Bate writes, "is not simply that [he] is so vividly picturesque and quotable . . . The deeper secret of his hypnotic attraction, especially during our own generation, lies in the immense reassurance he gives to human nature." Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's intellect and fueled his prodigious contribution to literature, religion, politics, and our understanding of the nature of humankind, revealing the fascinating nature — both odd and adored — of this literary luminary.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Classic Publishers
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1582012156
High quality reprint of The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11658629
Author : Martin Riker
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566895361
A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel’s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker’s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world. Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, London Review of Books, the Baffler, and Conjunctions. This is his first novel.
Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732695607
Reproduction of the original: The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1787
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433066661335
Author : Samuel Johnson,Henry Noble Maccracken Professor of English Literature Robert DeMaria
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780300106725
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW20M0