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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... patrons , and the public were renegotiated in his time and with his help . No writer did more to set in motion that growth of literacy and wide- spread engagement with cultural issues that Raymond Williams calls " the long revolution ...
... patron of letters in England . Soon everyone would know . A few months passed with no reply . Then one Friday , February 7 , 1755 , Johnson wrote a letter to Chesterfield . No manuscript of the original survives , nor was it published ...
... 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 has reached ...
... patron has become as much a dream as Santa Claus . In such a world an author's declaration of independence would seem disingenuous at best . Moreover , Johnson had not renounced the idea of a patron . Seven years later he had no ...
... Patron . In this way he makes it im- possible for Chesterfield to play the role he prefers — the good- natured man of letters and man of the world.22 Pinned to the scutcheon of Patron , his lordship , as he reads , will find it very ...
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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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