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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... Lord Chesterfield . Another , according to anecdote , Johnson once heard praised as an extraordinarily fine speech by the elder Pitt , upon which he broke in : " That speech I wrote in a garret in Exeter Street . " A bookseller , Thomas ...
... Lord Chesterfield . Another , according to anecdote , Johnson once heard praised as an extraordinarily fine speech by the elder Pitt , upon which he broke in : " That speech I wrote in a garret in Exeter Street . " A bookseller , Thomas ...
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... Lord Chesterfield , the elegant patron to whom Johnson had hopefully ad- dressed his Plan in 1747 ? Nothing but " neglect " and " cold indiffer- ence " had come from that quarter , until in November and December 1754 Chesterfield ...
... Lord Chesterfield , the elegant patron to whom Johnson had hopefully ad- dressed his Plan in 1747 ? Nothing but " neglect " and " cold indiffer- ence " had come from that quarter , until in November and December 1754 Chesterfield ...
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... spent , and seems as a dream that has left nothing behind . My memory grows confused , and I know not how the days pass over me . Good Lord deliver me . " On 23 July of this year Johnson received a surprise. 14 INTRODUCTION.
... spent , and seems as a dream that has left nothing behind . My memory grows confused , and I know not how the days pass over me . Good Lord deliver me . " On 23 July of this year Johnson received a surprise. 14 INTRODUCTION.
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... Lord of the Scottish Courts of Session and Justiciary , only momentarily forgot themselves and collided in a contest of " in- tellectual gladiators . " ) The travelers got to Edinburgh on 9 November , and on 22 November , 100 days after ...
... Lord of the Scottish Courts of Session and Justiciary , only momentarily forgot themselves and collided in a contest of " in- tellectual gladiators . " ) The travelers got to Edinburgh on 9 November , and on 22 November , 100 days after ...
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... Lord Bute . He wrote his pam- phlets in support of the policies of two later administrations , those of the Duke of Grafton and Lord North . Although he undertook the work with some misgivings , he succeeded in writing with a degree of ...
... Lord Bute . He wrote his pam- phlets in support of the policies of two later administrations , those of the Duke of Grafton and Lord North . Although he undertook the work with some misgivings , he succeeded in writing with a degree of ...
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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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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