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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... writing not always indisputable . A vindication of tragicomedy 206 No. 158 Rules of writing drawn from examples . Those examples often mistaken No. 168 Poetry debased by mean expressions . An example from Shakespeare 209 213 No. 179 The ...
... writing not always indisputable . A vindication of tragicomedy 206 No. 158 Rules of writing drawn from examples . Those examples often mistaken No. 168 Poetry debased by mean expressions . An example from Shakespeare 209 213 No. 179 The ...
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... writer William Oldys had listed the books and written numerous descriptive notes in English and Latin . Johnson apparently ... write biog- raphies ( at least half a dozen , of physicians , surgeons , and kindred scientists ) , as well as ...
... writer William Oldys had listed the books and written numerous descriptive notes in English and Latin . Johnson apparently ... write biog- raphies ( at least half a dozen , of physicians , surgeons , and kindred scientists ) , as well as ...
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... writer of Johnson's fertility and his constant social and moral concern should turn at some time to the periodical ... write the rest while the first part was printing . Sometimes the printer's boy would come to a house where a party ...
... writer of Johnson's fertility and his constant social and moral concern should turn at some time to the periodical ... write the rest while the first part was printing . Sometimes the printer's boy would come to a house where a party ...
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... write the letters on the title page of the Dictionary , which was published in two folio volumes on 15 April . He was now " Dictionary Johnson . " One of the last parts to be written was the Pre- face , a noble , if melancholy ...
... write the letters on the title page of the Dictionary , which was published in two folio volumes on 15 April . He was now " Dictionary Johnson . " One of the last parts to be written was the Pre- face , a noble , if melancholy ...
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... Writing his Preface , about this time , for a very minor poet , the Oxonian Edmund Smith , Johnson found occasion to insert a tender allusion to some Lichfield friends of early days , among them David Garrick , whom he " hoped to have ...
... Writing his Preface , about this time , for a very minor poet , the Oxonian Edmund Smith , Johnson found occasion to insert a tender allusion to some Lichfield friends of early days , among them David Garrick , whom he " hoped to have ...
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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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