Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends - Couverture rigide

Johnson, Samuel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300210957 ISBN 13 : 9780300210958

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Early biographies and other life writing by Samuel Johnson, performing in his favorite literary genre

Well before publishing the Lives of the Poets, Samuel Johnson was an accomplished biographer, having written the lives of numerous scholars, scientists, philosophers, critics, and theologians (including Peter Burnham, Sir Thomas Browne, and Confucius) as well as of select military and political leaders (such as Sir Francis Drake, Admiral Blake, and Frederick the Great). This volume contains these earlier biographies as well as epitaphs and obituaries for ordinary individuals with whom Johnson shared a personal connection. This collection of life writing displays Johnson performing in his favorite literary genre in the many years before he wrote his celebrated Lives of the Poets.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was a poet, essayist, biographer, and editor. O. M. Brack, Jr.(1938-2012), was emeritus professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Robert DeMaria, Jr., is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300210957
• ISBN 13: 9780300210958
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 616
• Éditeur: Brack Jr. Jr. O. M., DeMaria Jr. Robert
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