Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and ProseUniversity of California Press, 7 lut 1978 - 656 This is a major new selection of Samuel Johnson's best work, delightfully introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and scrupulously annotated by Frank Brady and Mr. Wimsatt. Samuel Johnson, the only writer in English since the Renaissance to give his name to a literary period, was the center of English letters in his time. He was Dictionary Johnson, the lexicographer who had single-handedly settled the English language (it was hoped) on a firm basis; he was the author of a handful of fine poems, including two of the most remarkable satires of the century; he was a moralist whose Rambler and Idler essays, and novel-of-ideas Rasselas, provided a searching view of men and matters. And in his final years he produced his greatest work, that extraordinary combination of biography and criticism which came to be known as the Lives of the Poets. This first extensive anthology of Johnson's writings to be published in many years emphasizes Johnson the writer. It responds to those aspects of Johnson's work of special interest to modern readers. It comprises a selection of Johnson's letters, all of his major poems (including London), Rasselas, twenty-one Rambler, nineteen Idlers, the Prefaces to the Dictionary and to the edition of Shakespeare, and the following Lives of the Poets: Cowley, Milton, Swift, Pope, Savage, Collins, and Gray. All these works are extensively annotated and printed complete. Mr. Wimsatt, one of the outstanding Johnsonians of this century, provides in his Introduction a clear, connected biographical account of Johnson, stressing his writings. An up-to-date bibliography is also included. Johnson's varied accomplishments—as poet, as moralist, as biographer, as critic—are all amply represented. |
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... Samuel Johnson Selected Poetry and Prose EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY FRANK BRADY AND W. K. WIMSATT University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles , California.
... Samuel Johnson Selected Poetry and Prose EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY FRANK BRADY AND W. K. WIMSATT University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles , California.
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... London , England Copyright © 1977 by The Regents of the University of California ISBN 978-0-520-03552-2 ( pbk : alk . paper ) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : 74-27285 Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 08 07 14 ...
... London , England Copyright © 1977 by The Regents of the University of California ISBN 978-0-520-03552-2 ( pbk : alk . paper ) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : 74-27285 Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 08 07 14 ...
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... London 47 Prologue to Garrick's Lethe 54 Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Theater in Drury Lane , 1747 The Vanity of Human Wishes A New Prologue Spoken at the 555 55 57 Representation of Comus Prologue to The Good - Natured Man A ...
... London 47 Prologue to Garrick's Lethe 54 Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Theater in Drury Lane , 1747 The Vanity of Human Wishes A New Prologue Spoken at the 555 55 57 Representation of Comus Prologue to The Good - Natured Man A ...
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... London — Dodsley's Collection , 1748 . Prologue to Garrick's " Lethe " —the Folger manuscript . Reprinted by kind permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library , Washington , D.C. Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Theater in Drury ...
... London — Dodsley's Collection , 1748 . Prologue to Garrick's " Lethe " —the Folger manuscript . Reprinted by kind permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library , Washington , D.C. Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Theater in Drury ...
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... London to be " touched " for the " King's Evil " by Queen Anne . He studied English at elementary schools in Lichfield and Latin and Greek at the Free Grammar School . He dominated his fellow students . He was ambitious but indolent ...
... London to be " touched " for the " King's Evil " by Queen Anne . He studied English at elementary schools in Lichfield and Latin and Greek at the Free Grammar School . He dominated his fellow students . He was ambitious but indolent ...
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE | 28 |
LETTERS | 31 |
POEMS | 47 |
THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA | 73 |
SELECTIONS FROM THE RAMBLER | 155 |
SELECTIONS FROM THE IDLER | 233 |
PREFACE TO A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE | 277 |
PREFACE TO THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | 299 |
LIVES OF THE POETS | 337 |
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose Samuel Johnson,Frank Brady,William Kurtz Wimsatt Podgląd niedostępny - 1978 |
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Abraham Cowley acquaintance Addison Aeneid afterwards appeared censure character Colley Cibber common considered conversation Cowley criticism danger David Garrick death delight desire diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad easily Eclogue edition elegance endeavored English Essay excellence expected eyes fancy Fanny Burney faults favor genius happiness Henry Thrale honor hope human Iliad images imagination imitation Imlac James Boswell Johnson kind King knowledge labor lady language Latin learning letters Lichfield live London Lord mankind marriage Milton mind nature neglected never observed once opinion Paradise Lost passions Pekuah perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise present prince princess published Rasselas reader reason received Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems seldom sentiments Shakespeare solicited sometimes Streatham suffered supposed Swift thought tion tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verse virtue words write written wrote