Dr. Johnson and His Circle
Author: John Bailey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-17
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 3752317701
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Author: John Bailey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-17
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 3752317701
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Author: James Boswell
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Published: 1826
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jack Lynch
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2021-06-18
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1684483026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative newcomers. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century. For more than two decades, The Age of Johnson has presented a vast corpus of Johnsonian studies "in the broadest sense," as founding editor Paul J. Korshin put it in the preface to Volume 1, and it has retained the interest of a wide readership. In thousands of pages of articles, review essays, and reviews, The Age of Johnson has made a permanent contribution to our understanding of the eighteenth century, and particularly of Samuel Johnson, his circle, and his interests, and has also served as an outlet for writers who are not academics but have something important to say about the eighteenth century. ISSN 0884-5816.
Author: John Cann Bailey
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 1913-01-01
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1465529705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leo Damrosch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-03-26
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0300244967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Author: John Cann Bailey
Publisher: London : Williams and Norgate
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1775
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" is a short story written in 1917 by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in the September 1917 issue of the United Amateur, under the pseudonym Humphrey Littlewit, Esq. The story is a spoof of Lovecraft's antiquarian affectations. Littlewit, the narrator, is born August 20, 1690–200 years to the day before Lovecraft's birthdate—making him nearly 228 years old as he writes a memoir. Critic Daniel Harms writes, "While not one of the most inspired of his pieces, it at least shows that HPL realized his pretensions... of being an older, cultured gentleman of an earlier era, and could make fun of himself."
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam Sisman
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780007234295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith great wit, Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task--the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces the friendship between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell's seven-year struggle to write "The Life of Samuel Johnson."