| The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets Contributor(s): Johnson, Samuel (Author), Hawkins, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108031730 ISBN-13: 9781108031738 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Collections - Drama |
| Dewey: 821.009 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.19 lbs) 428 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 3 contains the second 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 it 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. |