Selected writings / Samuel Johnson ; edited by Peter Martin.

By:

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Martin, Peter, 1940- [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 503 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674054073
0674054075

Uniform titles:

Works. Selections. 2009

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Selected writings.DDC classification:

828/.609 22

LOC classification:

PR3522 .M25 2009eb

Other classification:

HK 2411

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Contents:

pt. 1. Periodical essays (1750-1760). Morality, behavior and psychology -- Society and manners -- Biography and autobiography -- Literature and authorship -- Death -- Politics -- pt. 2. Excerpts from the preface to A dictionary of the English language (1755) -- pt. 3. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759) -- pt. 4. Preface to The plays of William Shakespeare (1765) -- Excerpts from Lives of the poets.

Summary: Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. But in Johnson's own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works - allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns - are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.

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Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. But in Johnson's own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works - allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns - are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.

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