Download or read book Dr Samuel Johnson and His Birthplace A Retrospect and Guide Compiled by the Johnson House Committee written by Johnson House Committee, afterwards Johnson Birthplace Committee (LICHFIELD) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 353 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 Dr Samuel Johnson and His Birthplace written by Johnson Birthplace Committee, Lichfield, England and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 80 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 . This book was released on 1928 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Dr Samuel Johnson and His Birthplace a Retrospect and Guide written by Johnson House (Lichfield) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dr Samuel Johnson and His Birthplace Edited by Percy Laithwaite With Illustrations Including Portraits written by Johnson House Committee, afterwards Johnson Birthplace Committee (LICHFIELD) and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson", one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson's Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, we owe our knowledge of the man himself to this biography. Through a series of wonderfully detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure with a huge appetite for life, crossing swords with other great eighteenth-century luminaries, from Garrick and Goldsmith to Burney and Burke - even his long-suffering friend and disciple James Boswell.Yet Johnson had a vulnerable, even tragic, side and anxieties and obsessions haunted his private hours. Boswell's sensitivity and insight into every facet of his subject's character ultimately make this biography as moving as it is entertaining. Based on the 1799 edition, Christopher Hibbert's abridgement preserves the integrity of the original, while his fascinating introduction sets Boswell's view of Samuel Johnson against that of others of the time.

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:

Download or read book Dr Samuel Johnson and His Birthplace A Retrospect and Guide and a Short Account of the Johnson Society written by Johnson Society (Lichfield) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life of Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1791, this biography of English writer, Samuel Johnson, has been described as the greatest biography ever written. Differing from others in that era, it contained not just a record of Johnson's public life, but instead painted a vivid portrait of him, and included extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. This edition is an abridged version edited by Charles Grosvenor Osgood.Note: there were no chapters in the main body of the text, so I added some arbitrary ones to break the text up a little bit.