Samuel JohnsonHarvard University Press, 1998 - 372 páginas He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author." |
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... sure , the members of Parliament themselves were schooled in classical rhetoric . But Johnson worked from scanty notes or none at all , and the theater of stately eloquence seems to have existed primarily in his imagination , where ...
... sure , he knows that poetry can do more . No imitation , how- ever fine , can rival the power of an original invention , drawn from na- ture and fulfilled by art . " To strike out the first hints of a new fable " and to carry it through ...
... sure to resume the warning : fiction deceives . This is , to be sure , a paradoxical theme . A fiction that constantly inculcates the danger of fiction runs the risk of self - cancellation and self - contradiction - not to mention ...
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the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
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