Download or read book Contemporary Criticisms of Dr Samuel Johnson His Works and His Biographers written by John Ker Spittal and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 1923 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Criticisms of Dr Samuel Johnson His Works and His Biographers written by John Ker Spittal and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Criticisms of Dr Samuel Johnson written by John K. Spittal and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Criticisms of Doctor Samuel Johnson His Works and His Biographers written by John K. Spittal and published by . This book was released on 1923-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Samuel Johnson is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history." He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Peter Martin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson LL D written by James Boswell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. A Biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson James Boswell Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Professor of English at Princeton University The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. The work was a popular and critical success when first published. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English, but some modern critics object that the work cannot be considered a proper biography. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Nonetheless, modern biographers have found Boswell's biography an important source of information on Johnson and his times. ------- In making this abridgement of Boswell's Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell's criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson's opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell's day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, have been retained, and enough of the whole book to illustrate all the phases of Johnson's mind and of his time which Boswell observed. Loyal Johnsonians may look upon such a book with a measure of scorn. I could not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventually of finding for them in the complete work what many have already found - days and years of growing enlightenment and happy companionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917.
Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by David Nokes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by James James Lowry Clifford and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Samuel Johnson Annotated written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) by James Boswell is a biography of the English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. The work was from the beginning a critical and popular success, and represents a milestone in the development of the modern genre. Biography He is notable for his extensive accounts of Johnson's conversation. Many have claimed it as the best biography written in English, but some modern critics object that the work cannot be considered an adequate biography. Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject began in 1763, when Johnson was 54, and Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life through further investigation. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes several changes to Johnson's quotes and even censures many comments.However, the book is valued as an important source of information about Johnson and his time, as well as an important literary work. On May 16, 1763, when a 22-year-old Scotsman was visiting London, Boswell met Johnson at the bookstore of Johnson's friend, Tom Davies. They quickly became friends, although Boswell would only see Johnson for many years when he visited London in the intervals of his legal practice in Scotland.
Download or read book English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement written by George Benjamin Woods and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel Johnson written by John Fuller Russell and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by W. Jackson Bate and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out as a Grub Street journalist, he made his mark on history as a poet, author, moralist, literary critic, political commentator, and lexiconographer. We, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen. Professor W. Jackson Bate is a lyrical writer who deftly explains the effect Johnson has had on scholars, critics, and readers of all kinds through the past 200 years: "The reason Johnson has always fascinated so many people of different kinds," Bate writes, "is not simply that [he] is so vividly picturesque and quotable . . . The deeper secret of his hypnotic attraction, especially during our own generation, lies in the immense reassurance he gives to human nature." Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's intellect and fueled his prodigious contribution to literature, religion, politics, and our understanding of the nature of humankind, revealing the fascinating nature — both odd and adored — of this literary luminary.
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Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Volume 2 1660 1800 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Download or read book Lives of the English Poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by Atlantic Publishers & Distri. This book was released on 1925 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
