The Lives of the Poets

The Lives of the Poets
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2009-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191622737

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Six Chief Lives

The Six Chief Lives
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1878
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 853
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0300258003

A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson
Author: David Nokes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 080508651X

In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.

Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing

Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing
Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393302585

Focuses on the struggles and pressures which attended the literary career of the eighteenth-century figure

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2020-05-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780461895018

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