Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late Dr Samuel Johnson 1785 written by William Shaw and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1974 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON All 6 Volumes in One Edition written by James Boswell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 2952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." (1791) 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. 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. Regardless of these actions, modern biographers have found Boswell's biography as an important source of information. The work was popular among early audiences and with modern critics, but some of the modern critics believe that the work cannot be considered a proper biography. James Boswell (1740–1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language.

Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to Boswell’s monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. He is more often quoted than read, his name invoked in party conversation on such diverse topics as marriage, sleep, deceit, mental concentration, and patriotism, to generally humorous effect. But in Johnson’s own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer: a gifted writer possessed of great force of mind and wisdom. Writing a century after Johnson, Ruskin wrote of Johnson’s essays: He “taught me to measure life, and distrust fortune...he saved me forever from false thoughts and futile speculations.” Peter Martin here presents “the heart of Johnson,” a selection of some of Johnson’s best moral and critical essays. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Also included are Johnson’s great moral fable, Rasselas; the Prefaces to the Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; and selections from Lives of the Poets. Together, these works—allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns—are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.

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Download or read book The Letters of Samuel Johnson Volume I written by Samuel Johnson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can," Samuel Johnson declared, according to Boswell. And Boswell answered, "Do what you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities." But Johnson's letters are far more than that. Even at their most cursory and casual, they are never less than precious biographical documents, and many of them mirror, define, and re-create a vivid likeness of the most versatile writer of eighteenth-century England. With these three volumes Princeton University Press inaugurates the first scholarly edition of this remarkable material to appear in forty years--the planned five-volume series The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Known as the Hyde Edition, the project will be completed with the fourth volume, covering the years 1782 through 1784, and the fifth, containing the comprehensive index and appendices. The series as a whole will present fifty-two previously unknown letters or parts of letters that have come to light since the publication of R. W. Chapman's three-volume set (Oxford, 1952). Such "new" letters, however, are scarcely more important than those for which only inferior printed texts or copies of varying reliability had previously been recovered. The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents--a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in expurgated form. The Hyde Edition is also the first systematically to record substantive deletions, which can yield intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits, and chains of association. Furthermore, its ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands during the last four decades. Finally, the annotation of the letters incorporates the many significant discoveries of postwar Johnsonian scholarship, as well as decoding references that had previously resisted explanation. The result is a far richer understanding of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and milieu. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Life of Johnson Book Vi written by James Boswell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-06-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life of Johnson, by Boswell was published in 1791, and it remains one of the best biographies ever written. It is a compilation of letters, journals, memoirs and extracts of other works. It presents the personality of the author, his profound ideas and his ideology of life. Even the most negligible detail about the dressing and the life style of Johnson is given in a humorous and subtle manner. The literary society of England at the time is also reflected through the work.

Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson Illustrated written by Dr. Samuel Johnson and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 14267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated Dr. Johnson made a lasting contribution to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer and lexicographer. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Samuel Johnson, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Johnson’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * ALL the essays, articles, pamphlets, biographies and critical works * Rare works often missed out of collections * Includes the posthumous collection PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Includes a generous selection of entries for the original 1755 Dictionary, with many definitions for all letters of the alphabet, as well as the original plan and preface * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Johnson’s contribution to literature * Features four biographies – immerse yourself in Johnson’s world! * Includes the complete edition of Boswell’s seminal biography, as well as a useful abridged version * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Essays and Pamphlets A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA MARMOR NORFOLCIENSE A COMPLEAT VINDICATION OF THE LICENSERS OF THE STAGE THE PLAN OF A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THE RAMBLER THE ADVENTURER THE IDLER THE FALSE ALARM THOUGHTS ON THE LATE TRANSACTIONS RESPECTING FALKLAND’S ISLANDS THE PATRIOT TAXATION NO TYRANNY A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT A CONVERSATION BETWEEN HIS MOST SACRED MAJESTY GEORGE III AND SAMUEL JOHNSON LID MISCELLANEOUS PAMPHLETS, REVIEWS AND ESSAYS PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS The Novella THE PRINCE OF ABISSINIA: A TALE The Dictionary PREFACE TO A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SELECTED DICTIONARY ENTRIES The Biographies AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF MR RICHARD SAVAGE THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS THE LIVES OF EMINENT MEN The Literary Criticism MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PREFACE TO THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE NOTES TO SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE The Play IRENE The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Criticism DR. JOHNSON AND HIS CIRCLE by John Bailey SAMUEL JOHNSON by Richard Claverhouse Jebb SAMUEL JOHNSON by Leslie Stephen STUDIES OF A BIOGRAPHER by Leslie Stephen A POETICAL REVIEW OF THE LITERARY AND MORAL CHARACTER OF JOHNSON by John Courtenay SAMUEL JOHNSON by Nathaniel Hawthorne SAMUEL JOHNSON by C. E. Vaughan ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. by Hester Lynch Piozzi THE REAL DR. JOHNSON by G. K. Chesterton A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON by H. P. Lovecraft The Biographies THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D. by James Boswell BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON (ABRIDGED) by Charles Grosvenor Osgood MACAULAY’S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON by ‎Arthur Murphy

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson the Ossian Fraud and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland written by Thomas M. Curley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed investigation of Johnson's response to the Ossian controversy, with a transcription of a rare anti-Ossian pamphlet he co-authored.

Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Peter Martin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benefiting from recent critical scholarship that has explored new attitudes toward Johnson, Martin's biography offers a human and sympathetic portrait of the literary and social icon.

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