Life of Dryden
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 220
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Author: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 220
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 504
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Published: 1819
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
Published: 2015-11-27
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 1904915507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.
Author: Boris Ford
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKV.1. pt. 1. Medieval literature : Chaucer and the alliterative tradition. pt. 2. Medieval literature : the European inheritance -- v.2. The age of Shakespeare - - v.3. From Donne to Marvell -- v.4. From Dryden to Johnson -- v.5. From Blake to Byron -- v.6. From Dickens to Hardy -- v.7. From James to Elliot -- v.8. The present -- v.9. American literature.
Author: Boris Ford
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780140138108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-05-28
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0191622737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: George Winchester Stone
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 980
ISBN-13: 9780809307432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresentative selections from Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, comedy, satire, tragedy, and farce are prefaced by descriptions of the theaters, acting styles, methods of play production, and audiences.
Author: John A. Vance
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0820333778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo area of Johnsonian studies has been less appreciated and more misunderstood than Johnson's response to history. Popular notions to the effect that he was insensitive to history have discouraged scholars and critics from discovering the role history played in his thinking. In this first book-length investigation of the subject, John A. Vance concludes that few misconceptions about Samuel Johnson have been so glaring as his supposed dislike of history. More specifically, in separate chapters Vance examines the development of Johnson's historical sense--from his readings, heritage, and travels to historical sites; Johnson's recall and use of historical figures and events, most notably the seventeenth-century attitude toward the most maligned member of the historical family, antiquarianism. The author also devotes two chapters to Johnson's historical writings--that is, those works in which he either incorporates history into his critical, biographical, and political discussions or those in which he clearly assumes the role of historian himself. Vance furthermore considers Johnson's views on historical facts, educative and moral history, the broadening scope of historical investigation, the nature of historical truth and skepticism, historical research, historical causation, and the historian's style.
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Published: 1961
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