Monument More Durable Than Brass

Informationen zum Autor John Overholt is Assistant Curator of the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson and of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts at the Houghton Library of Harvard University. Thomas A. Horrocks is Associate Librarian for Collections! Houghton Library of Harvard University. James Engell! Professor of English and Comparative Literature! Harvard! is the author of The Creative Imagination! editor and contributor to Johnson and His Age! and coeditor (with David Perkins) of Teaching Literature: What is Needed Now! all published by Harvard University Press. He is also coeditor of the Bollingen edition of the Biographia Literaria for the Collected Works of Coleridge. Klappentext A catalogue of items drawn from the "Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr Samuel Johnson"! bequeathed to the library in 2004 by Mary Hyde Eccles. Zusammenfassung Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) remains a larger than life figure, one whose influence on his time was as monumental as his legacy is enduring. To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Johnson, Harvard University’s Houghton Library presents this exhibition catalogue of items drawn from the Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James Engell, Thomas A Horrocks, Thomas A. Horrocks, John Overholt, Thomas A. Overholt, William Zachs
• Mitarbeit: Thomas A. Horrocks (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2006
• EAN: 9780981885827
• ISBN: 978-0-9818858-2-7
• Serien: Houghton Library Publications; Houghton Library Publications (HUP)
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft