Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorHarvard University Press, 2009. júl. 1. - 384 oldal 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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... Savage 48 4. Preferment's Gate : The Vanity of Human Wishes 86 5. Man of Letters : A Dictionary of the English Language 103 6. The Living World : The Rambler 145 7. Reclaiming Imagination : Rasselas 173 8. The Theater of Mind : The ...
... savage portrait of Love : Nunc scio quid sit Amor , duris in cautibus ilium Ismarus , aut Rhodope , aut extremi Garamantes , Nee generis nostri puerum nee sanguinis , edunt Now I know what Love is , on hard stone Ismarus or Rhodope or ...
... faction so well or make so much of it . He projected his life as an au- thor from such beginnings . The problems he found there would follow him to the end . 3 Becoming an Author : London ; Life of Savage 47 Johnson's Beginnings.
... Savage If I were to form an adage of misery , or fix the lowest point to which humanity could fall , I should be tempted to name the life of an author . J OHNSON BECAME an author against his will . Need and chance , not destiny , were ...
... learned writer would be capable of the reference . In order to catch it , the reader of an English dictionary has to know Greek . This is very superior humor . Even as Johnson self - consciously claims to 49 London ; Life of Savage.
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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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