The Lives of the Poets: Volume I
Johnson himself wrote in 1782: I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, writtenwith characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memo…
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Weitere Autoren: Lonsdale, Roger (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-928479-5
- EAN: 9780199284795
- Produktnummer: 22678460
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 458 S.
- Auflage: New
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Emeritus Fellow of Balliol and former Professor of English at the University of Oxford, Roger Lonsdale is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse (1987).
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