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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies Volume 2)
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Samuel Johnson (Author) John Hawkins (Contributor)
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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. Worked examples or Exercises
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- Contributor: Samuel Johnson
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9781108031721
- Number of Pages: 486
- Packaged Dimensions: 140x216x28mm
- Packaged Weight: 610
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2011-06-02
- Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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