The Works of Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1788
Total Pages: 596
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Author: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1788
Total Pages: 596
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Published: 1801
Total Pages: 472
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Published: 1806
Total Pages: 328
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Published: 1806
Total Pages: 420
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 853
ISBN-13: 0300258003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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
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Published: 1820
Total Pages: 470
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Published: 1820
Total Pages: 458
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 1050
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Published: 1801
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir John Hawkins
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 591
ISBN-13: 0820342882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. , a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life . Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. Hawkins was Johnson's friend and legal adviser and the chief executor of his will. He knew Johnson longer and in many respects better than other biographers, including Boswell, who made unacknowledged use of Hawkins's Life and helped orchestrate the critical attacks that consigned the book to obscurity. Sir John Hawkins had special insight into Johnson's mental states at various points in his life, his early days in London, his association with the Gentleman's Magazine , and his political views and writings. Hawkins's use of historical and cultural details, an uncommon literary device at the time, produced one of the earliest "life and times" biographies in our language. The Introduction by O M Brack, Jr., covers the history of the composition, publication, and reception of the Life and provides a context in which it should be read. Annotations address historical, literary, and linguistic uncertainties, and a full textual apparatus documents how Brack arrived at this definitive text of Hawkins's Life .