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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... never die . The image even has its own name , Dr. Johnson ( a title he sel- dom if ever used ) . Nor has the fascination faded . One good anthol- ogy of Johnson's prose and poetry begins by cautioning that 1 Introduction.
... never shy about showing off the first person . Moreover , the writer flourishes his pedigree . Witty , knowing , and confident , he represents the beau monde , the only world that matters in The World.2 Only someone convinced that lan ...
... never had a Patron before . The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love , and found him a Native of the Rocks . Is not a Patron , My Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he ...
... never inflicts pain , ' was corrected nicely by Oscar Wilde : " a gentleman never inflicts pain un- intentionally . " In these terms Chesterfield had failed and Johnson had won . " 30 Yet the letter is more than a competition between ...
... never be the same . Yet the myth that Johnson fashioned does not conform to the leg- end that later readers have woven around it . Does the letter an- nounce the end of patronage ? We have already seen some reasons for doubt ...
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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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