Samuel Johnson''s Lives of the Poets - Volume IV

Zusatztext Roger Lonsdale, an authority on the period, has published a tremendous four-volume scholarly text, with very full notes and an introduction which is a book in itself. Informationen zum Autor Emeritus Fellow of Balliol and former Professor of English at the University of Oxford, Roger Lonsdale is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse (1987). Klappentext Johnson himself wrote in 1782: "I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets." Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, writtenwith characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of theenigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his ownearlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume four of four. Zusammenfassung Produced as a contribution to English biography and criticism, this fourth volume offers a survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to the author's own time. It also includes an introduction and critical apparatus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Pope Pitt Thomson Watts A. Philips West Collins Dyer Shenstone Young Mallet Akenside Gray Lyttelton COMMENTARY APPENDIX A. Sequences of Johnson's Poets APPENDIX B. Some Early Periodical Reactions 1779-83 APPENDIX C. Spelling and Capitalization in the Prefaces and Lives ...

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• Authors: Samuel Johnson, Roger Lonsdale, Roger (Emeritus Fellow Lonsdale
• Assisted by: Roger Lonsdale (Editor), Roger (Emeritus Fellow Lonsdale (Editor), Lonsdale Roger (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2006
• EAN: 9780199284825
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928482-5
• No. of pages: 666
• Series: Oxford English Texts; Oxford English Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Biography: writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form