The Table Talk Of Dr Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
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.
Loving Dr. Johnson
Author | : Helen Deutsch |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0226143821 |
"Loving Dr. Johnson uses the enormous popularity of Johnson to understand a singular case of author love and to reflect upon what the love of authors has to do with the love of literature. Helen Deutsch's work is driven by several impulses, among them her affection for both Johnson's work and Boswell's biography of him, and her own distance from the largely male tradition of Johnsonian criticism - a tradition to which she remains indebted and to which Loving Dr. Johnson is ultimately an homage. Limning sharply Johnson's capacious oeuvre, Deutsch's study is also the first of its kind to examine the practices and rituals of Johnsonian societies around the world, wherein Johnson's literary work is now dwarfed by the figure of the writer himself."--BOOK JACKET.
Dr. Johnson's Table-talk:
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1798 |
Genre | : Aphorisms and apothegms |
ISBN | : |
Samuel Johnson
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.
The Club
Author | : Leo Damrosch |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300244967 |
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author | : Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2019-11-21 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a full collection of Coleridge's conversations and writings. Excerpt: "It is nearly fifteen years since I was, for the first time, enabled to become a frequent and attentive visitor in Mr. Coleridge's domestic society. His exhibition of intellectual power in living discourse struck me at once as unique and transcendent; and upon my return home, on the very first evening which I spent with him after my boyhood, I committed to writing, as well as I could, the principal topics of his conversation in his own words. I had no settled design at that time of continuing the work, but simply made the note in something like a spirit of vexation that such a strain of music as I had just heard, should not last forever."