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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... things that involve other people , allowing them to build a critical mass of anecdotes and sketches . Some modern biographers seem to resent the artist's hermetic preoccupation with art . Johnson has quite a different point of view ...
... thing ; he to whom any thing owes its original . 2. The efficient ; he that effects or produces any thing . 3. The first writer of any thing ; distinct from the translator or com- piler . 4. A writer in general . A dramatic slippage ...
... thing " does not seem very specific . A " beginner or mover " can , presumably , originate " things , " as God provides the first cause of either objects or events . But " the first writer of any thing " might be inventing a literary ...
... things . Johnson's harping on mortality might be precocious or abrupt , but that does not diminish its truth . At worst he is stating a platitude ; at best , discovering wisdom . In an eloquent analysis of " The Young Au- thor , " W ...
... things for pay " ) . 9 This view is worth considering . Sir John Hawkins , Johnson's friend and biographer , never ceased to marvel at his want of " the impulse of genius , " 10 by which he meant that Johnson never wrote anything except ...
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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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