Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorHarvard University Press, 01/07/2009 - 384 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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... lives — in his work . Tracing Johnson's rocky climb from anonymity to fame , in the course of which he came to stand for both the greatness of English literature and the good sense of the common reader , the book shows how this life ...
... Lives of Writers , ed . Warwick Gould and Tom Staley ( London : Macmillan , 1998 ) ; Chapter 2 , on a piece in Domestick Privacies : Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography , ed . David Wheeler ( Lexing- ton : University Press of ...
... lives of others . " The effort to think oneself into the frame of mind and the motives of someone else helps to define a moral being , according to Johnson , and many readers have testified that Johnson's example has helped them to live ...
... lives . Thirty - five years later , when curiosity was still alive , Boswell paved the way for his Life of Johnson by publishing the letter for the first time , with notes , in four quarto pages for half a guinea.5 How had a private ...
... lives as a presence and friend . The brilliant sentence on Virgil increases this distance from worldly affairs . Even on many readings it gives one pause . Precisely because it interrupts the narrative of Johnson's treatment by Ches ...
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Preferments Gate The Vanity of Human Wishes | 86 |
Man of Letters A Dictionary of the English Language | 103 |
The Living World The Rambler | 145 |
Reclaiming Imagination Rasselas | 173 |
The Theater of Mind The Plays of William Shakespeare | 198 |
Journeying Westward Political Writings A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
Touching the Shore The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
The Life to Come Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Abbreviation | 307 |
Notes | 309 |
Index | 363 |
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