Samuel JohnsonHaus Publishing, 2004 - 160 pagina's The poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson was one of the pre-eminent figures of 18th-century English letters. Johnson 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 wordswith 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 is as pungent today as ever. |
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Timothy Wilson-Smith. Contents Introduction 1 A young provincial scholar A critic comes to London ( 1709-1737 ) 3 ( 1737-1745 ) 19 The making of Dictionary Johnson ( 1745-1755 ) 36 The discontents of Rasselas ( 1755-1760 ) 52 A change of ...
Timothy Wilson-Smith. Contents Introduction 1 A young provincial scholar A critic comes to London ( 1709-1737 ) 3 ( 1737-1745 ) 19 The making of Dictionary Johnson ( 1745-1755 ) 36 The discontents of Rasselas ( 1755-1760 ) 52 A change of ...
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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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