Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson (1709-1784) is one of the pre-eminent figures of 18th century English letters. A poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer, Johnson was formidably productive and wide-ranging. He was also a legendary wit and conversationalist, whose sharp-tongued pronouncements and many eccentricities are well-recorded in Boswell's classic Life. In 1755, he published the first proper dictionary of the English language, defining some 40,000 words with great verve. (In it, he defined a lexicographer as a ?harmless drudge'.) His essays on Shakespeare, his Lives of the Poets and his extensive periodical essays were all seminal works in their field and his philosophical romance Rasselas (1759) is as pungent today as ever. |
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Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
A critic comes to London 17371745 | 19 |
The making of Dictionary Johnson 17451755 | 36 |
The discontents of Rasselas 17551760 | 52 |
A change of life 17601765 | 69 |
At Streatham and in the Club 17651773 | 88 |
The delights of travel 17731777 | 104 |
Among the poets 17771784 | 120 |
Notes | 138 |
Further Reading | 152 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Samuel Johnson Nummer 215 van Instructor literature series Life & times |
| Auteur | Timothy Wilson-Smith |
| Editie | geïllustreerd |
| Uitgever | Haus Publishing, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1904341810, 9781904341819 |
| Lengte | 160 pagina's |
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