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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... hope it is no very cinical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received , or to be unwilling that the Pub- lic should consider me as owing that to a Patron , which Providence has enabled me to do for myself ...
... hope , " he had already been making his living as a hack writer for ten years without any " favours from the Great . " In fact he knew such dreams were laughable . An essay he wrote for The Adventurer in 1753 , on " The Age of Authors ...
... hope and compel the reader to undergo a similar deflation . And Chesterfield should be carried along , made aware of his lack of consideration as well as the skill of the artist he has of- fended . Johnson is by no means his humble ...
... hope — and money and honor and fame — inspires this peroration . In 1755 each phrase would return , ironically in- verted , when Johnson parodied his old letter to Chesterfield by writ- ing a new one . The prospective event now ripens ...
... hope- ful young writer ; nothing suggests that they are out of date . On the contrary , Johnson implies that they are permanent , like vice or like the vanity of human wishes.38 Indeed , the letter to Chesterfield seems very nearly ...
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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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