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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson

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  • 486 sidor
  • 2011
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works - commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity - was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 2 contains the first part of his Lives of the Poets, his last major work. This was a commission to provide short accounts of over fifty poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and set a new standard for English literary biography. Although not all of the subjects have been regarded as eminent by posterity, and Johnson was criticised for brusque treatment of well-connected courtier poets now largely forgotten, the work was a great success.
  • Författare: Samuel Johnson
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781108031721
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 486
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-06-02
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press