Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.d. - Together With His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Johnson was an English writer who was born on September 18, 1709, and died on December 13, 1784. He was called "Dr. Johnson" by many people. He was a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he was "possibly the most famous writer in English history." Johnson became famous in his later years, and after he died, more and more people thought he had a lasting effect on literary criticism. Some even said he was the only truly great critic of English literature. In the 20th century, his ideas shaped the way people thought about literature, and his influence on biography will last for a long time. Johnson's Dictionary had a big impact on Modern English, and it was the best dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary came along 150 years later. The biographer of Samuel Johnson, Walter Jackson Bate, chose James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson as "the most famous single work of biographical art in all of literature." Klappentext This collected edition of Samuel Johnson's writings was published by his literary executor! the musicologist Sir John Hawkins! in 1787. Zusammenfassung 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. Volume 2 contains the first part of the Lives of the Poets, his collection of short biographies and criticisms of over fifty literary figures. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Cowley; Denham; Milton; Butler; Rochester; Roscommon; Otway; Waller; Pomfret; Dorset; Stepney; J. Philips; Walsh; Dryden; Smith; Duke.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Samuel Johnson
• Mitarbeit: John Hawkins (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108031721
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03172-1
• Seiten: 486
• Serien: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies; The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 11 Volume Set
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets