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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... Learning I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it , if less be possible , with less , for I have been long wakened from that Dream of hope , in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation , My lord , Your ...
... learning how to manage the literary market . Booksellers , not patrons , commissioned the Dictionary . When John- son first fell into his " Dream of hope , " he had already been making his living as a hack writer for ten years without ...
... learning but to " the propagators of knowledge " and " teachers of truth . " 47 An author who knows his business ought always to remember where he comes from , the long line of earlier authors who have taught him how to write and think ...
... Renaissance scholars and poets whom Johnson held so dear had made better use of their learning . Mrs. Piozzi observes that while Johnson always highly commended Addison's prose , " his praises resembled those 39 Johnson's Beginnings.
... learning obtain in any other cause , if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue , and confidence to truth . " 31 Addison deserved the highest praise as a teacher of wisdom , one who had published nothing that ...
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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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