Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers
Author | : John Ker Spittal |
Publisher | : Beaufort Books |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Ker Spittal |
Publisher | : Beaufort Books |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Ker Spittal |
Publisher | : Beaufort Books |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John K. Spittal |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1923-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780841478602 |
Author | : Peter Martin |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-08-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0297856162 |
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1826 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : Jeffrey Meyers |
Publisher | : Oldcastle Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2015-11-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1904915507 |
Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.
Author | : James James Lowry Clifford |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1970-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781452911564 |
Author | : David Nokes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080508651X |
In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.