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Samuel Johnson : the life of an author /

Lipking's Samuel Johnson is the story of the man as he lived - and lives - in his work. Tracing Johnson's rocky climb from anonymity to fame, in the course of which he came to stand for both the greatness of English literature and the good sense of the common reader, the book shows how thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lipking, Lawrence, 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
Johnson, Samuel, > 1709-1784.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Authors, English > 18th century > Biography.
Lexicographers > Great Britain > Biography.
Critics > Great Britain > Biography.
Literature > history
Écrivains anglais > 18e siècle > Biographies.
Lexicographes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Critiques > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Authors, English.
Critics.
Intellectual life.
Lexicographers.
Great Britain.
1700-1799
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access:Donated in memory of Rev. M.E. Conron
Table of Contents:
  • The birth of the author: the letter to Chesterfield
  • First flowers: Johnson's beginnings
  • Becoming an author: London; Life of Savage
  • Preferment's gate: The vanity of human wishes
  • Man of letters: A dictionary of the English language
  • The living world: The Rambler
  • Reclaiming imagination: Rasselas
  • The theater of the mind: The plays of William Shakespeare
  • Journeying westward: Political writings; A journey to the western islands of Scotland
  • Touching the shore: The lives of the English poets
  • The life to come: Johnson's endings.