The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets - Couverture souple

Johnson, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108031722 ISBN 13 : 9781108031721

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108031722
• ISBN 13: 9781108031721
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 486
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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