Download or read book Johnson And Boswell The Story Of Their Lives written by Hesketh Pearson and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hesketh Pearson’s biography is the first to combine the story of the two men whose lives were inseparable in the history of literature. He has included reliable contemporary accounts of Johnson, such as Fanny Burney’s, and skilfully made sense of Boswell’s own writings to form a clearer picture of the man of letters.
Download or read book Quarterly Review written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1951 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section: "Some Michigan books."
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Download or read book Whisky Kilts and the Loch Ness Monster written by William W. Starr and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of Scottish life and spirited endorsement of the unexpected discoveries to be made through good travel and good literature. Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two of the most celebrated writers of their day. An accomplished journalist and aficionado of fine literature, William W. Starr enlivens this crisply written travelogue with a playful wit, an enthusiasm for all things Scottish, the boon and burden of American sensibility, and an ardent appreciation for Boswell and Johnson—who make frequent cameos throughout these ramblings. In 1773 the sixty-three-year-old Johnson was England's preeminent man of letters, and Boswell, some thirty years Johnson's junior, was on the cusp of achieving his own literary celebrity. For more than one hundred days, the distinguished duo toured what was then largely unknown Scottish terrain, later publishing their impressions of the trip in a pair of classic journals. In 2007 Starr embarked on a three-thousand-mile trek through the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, following the path—though in reverse—of Boswell and Johnson. Starr tracked their route as closely as the threat of storms, distractions of pubs, and limitations of time would allow. Like his literary forebears, he recorded a wealth of keen observations on his encounters with places and people, lochs and lore, castles and clans, fables and foibles. Starr couples his contemporary commentary with passages from Boswell's and Johnson's published accounts, letters, and diaries to weave together a cohesive travel guide to the Scotland of yore and today, comparing reflections from two centuries ago to his own modern-day perspectives. The tour begins and ends in Edinburgh and includes along the way visits to Glasgow, Inverness, Loch Ness, Culloden, Auchinleck, the Isles of Iona and Skye, and many more destinations. In addition Starr expands his course to include two of the farthest reaches of Scotland where eighteenth-century travelers dared not tread: the Outer Hebrides and the Orkney Islands, remarkable regions shaped by distinctive weather, history, and isolation. Blending biography, intellectual and cultural history, and comic asides into his travelogue, Starr crafts an inviting vantage point from which to view aspects of Scotland's storied past and complex present through an illuminating literary lens. The well-read globetrotter and the armchair adventurer will each benefit from this compendium of fascinating revelations about Scotland's colorful, volatile heritage; its embrace of myth and legends; its flirtations with both tradition and commercialization; and its legacy as more than a source of single malts, bagpipes, and kilted genealogies.
Download or read book Boswell s Self analysis a Study of the Relationship Between His Early Writings and The Life of Johnson written by Joseph Maltby and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Volume 4 1900 1950 written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1972-12-07 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 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 The British Empire Before the American Revolution A bibliographical guide to the history of the British Empire 1748 1776 written by Lawrence Henry Gipson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Some Remembered Words written by Oscar Shoenfeld and published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 18th and 19th centuries, literature people were fond of copying out passages that had especially struck them or that seemed to have some particular significance from their favorite books, adding to these their own reflections. This tradition of "commonplace books" has largely been lost in the hurly-burly of modern life. But now, in "Some Remembered Words," Oscar Schoenfeld has rekindled the flame. His reading has been wide-ranging, his insights sharp and instructive, his taste for language and literature at once fine and eclectic, and all done with great humor. Bibliophiles and bookworms will find this handsome little volume a thing of beauty and a joy forever, an ideal gift book to dip into at bedside or to read straight through.
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Download or read book Boswellian Studies a Bibliography written by Anthony E. Brown and published by Shoe String Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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