Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism
By J. C. D. Clark55 Ashbourne school did not require a degree ; two men without degrees were preferred to Johnson : Bate , Johnson , p . 132 . 56 Pembroke College library borrowing register , reported in An Exhibition for the Johnson Club at Pembroke ...
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Samuel Johnson: A Survey and Bibliography of Critical Studies
By James James Lowry Clifford, Donald Johnson GreeneRalph S. Walker. London: Heinemann; New York: McGraw- Hill, 1966. 'Vol. 2. The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson, ed. Marshall Waingrow. New York: McGraw-Hill; ...
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Samuel Johnson
By Bruce Redford, Samuel Johnson5 Loosen'd from the minor's tether, Free to mortgage or to sell, Wild as wind, and light as feather Bid the slaves of thrift farewell. 10 Call the Bettys, Kates, and Jennys Ev'ry name that laughs at care, Lavish of your grandsire's ...
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Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism
By J. C. D. ClarkThis book offers an analysis of the life and thought of Samuel Johnson from a historian's viewpoint, which reverses the orthodoxy that has dominated the subject for over thirty years.
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Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author
By Lawrence LipkingSee Joseph Brodsky , " Nadezhda Mandelstam ( 1899-1980 ) : An Obituary , " in Less than One ( New York : Farrar Straus Giroux , 1986 ) , pp . 145-156 . 24. Robert Burrowes ( 1786 ) , in Boulton , p . 334 . 25.
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Samuel Johnson: The Struggle
By Jeffrey MeyersAmidst this revelry the plump and placid Parson Ford, dressed in clerical gown and bands and puffing a long churchwarden pipe, decorously presides at the table and continues to ladle out the lethal potion. A man of extensive knowledge ...
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Samuel Johnson: A Biography
By Peter MartinThree months after his death they were purchased ( surprisingly ) by the tasteless and ill - mannered bookseller Thomas Osborne for the huge sum of £ 13,000 but which was supposed to have been far less than what Harley had paid ...
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose
By William Wimsatt, Frank BradySelected Poetry and Prose Frank Brady, William Wimsatt. If the Pindaric style be, what Cowley thinks it, "the highest ... Statius (a.d. C.40-c.96) left only one book and a part of a second of his Achilleid. 95. Spectator, no. 590. 96.
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Samuel Johnson
By Walter Jackson BateIn this biography - a work that won three of the most prestigious literary prizes this country offers - W. Jackson Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's...
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Samuel Johnson: A Biography
By Peter MartinThe Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
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Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author
By Lawrence LipkingTracing Samuel Johnson's rocky climb from anonymity to fame, in the course of which he came to stand for both the greatness of English literature and the good sense of the common reader, Lipking shows how this life transformed the very ...
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Works
By Samuel JohnsonThis anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson.
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Samuel Johnson
By John WainSamuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson: A Biography
By Peter MartinPoet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of...
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
By Samuel JohnsonPublished to commemorate the influential essayist's 300th birthday, a volume of top-selected moral and critical essays includes his periodical writings from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler; the fable, Rasselas; and selections from Lives ...
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Samuel Johnson: A Biography
By W. Jackson BateWe, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen.
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings: A Tercentenary Celebration
By Samuel JohnsonSelected Writings: A Tercentenary Celebration Samuel Johnson Peter Martin ... His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the censure of critics, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rhymer think his ...
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Samuel Johnson: A Life
By David NokesIn this portrait of Samuel Johnson, David Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.
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Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author
By Lawrence LipkingTracing Samuel Johnson's rocky climb from anonymity to fame, in the course of which he came to stand for both the greatness of English literature and the good sense of...
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Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum
By Lynda Mugglestone, Freya JohnstonThis text offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life work, and reception across 15 thematically cohesive chapters.