The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets
Volume 3
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- Author: Samuel Johnson
- Editor: John Hawkins
- Date Published: June 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108031738
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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. This collected edition of his works - commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity - was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 3 contains the second part of his Lives of the Poets, his last major work. This was a commission to provide short accounts of over fifty poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and it set a new standard for English literary biography. Although not all of the subjects have been regarded as eminent by posterity, and Johnson was criticised for brusque treatment of well-connected courtier poets now largely forgotten, the work was a great success.
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- Date Published: June 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108031738
- length: 428 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, continued: King
Sprat
Halifax
Parnell
Garth
Rowe
Addison
Hughes
Sheffield
Buckinghamshire
Prior
Congreve
Blackmore
Fenton
Gay
Granville
Yalden
Tickell
Hammond
Somervile
Savage
Swift
Broome.
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