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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... Young Sam Johnson ( 1955 ) and Dictionary Johnson ( 1979 ) , the lively human interest of John Wain's Samuel Johnson ( 1974 ) , and the psy- chological depth of W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson ( 1977 ) . More recently , Robert DeMaria ...
... Young people especially needed instruction in " the Impor- tance of writing Letters with Propriety . " 18 No other sort of writing so thoroughly exposed one's manners , or lack of manners . As Samuel Richardson had shown , a well ...
... young author panting for a name , " whose first publication is hissed and damned until he flies to some retreat out of the light . This was a dismal fu- ture to expect . Yet in some ways the imaginary young author had fared much better ...
... young writer ; nothing suggests that they are out of date .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 timeless . The ...
... Young Johnson will not even pause for the usual carpe diem . Committing violence against nature , he does away with the daffodil at the first nightfall , collaps- ing the whole season into the time it takes him to write the poem . The ...
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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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