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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 11 Volume Set: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets
Contributor(s): Johnson, Samuel (Author), Hawkins, John (Editor)
ISBN: 110803182X     ISBN-13: 9781108031820
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $589.00  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections
- Drama
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 828.609
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Physical Information: 7.48" H x 13.98" W x 19.09" (17.64 lbs) 5452 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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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 by his literary executor, Sir John Hawkins, the musicologist. The volumes contain a range of material, from Hawkins' biography of Johnson, to poems, a play, famous essay collections such as The Rambler and The Idler, A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland and philological items concerning the Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare. The many biographies produced before and after his death have ensured Johnson's reputation, but even without these his own writings remain a landmark in eighteenth-century English literature.