The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Volume 2 : Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets
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Paperback / Softback
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Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
ISBN-10
1108031722
ISBN-13
9781108031721
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Jun 2nd, 2011
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486 Pages
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610 grams
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21.60 x 14.00 x 2.80 cms
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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. Volume 2 contains the first part of the Lives of the Poets, his collection of short biographies and criticisms of over fifty literary figures.
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.
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