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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets

Johnson, Samuel
Hawkins, John

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ISBN10: 1108031730
ISBN13: 9781108031738
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 2 2011
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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