Samuel Johnson

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Volume 10

Herausgeber: Hawkins, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This collected edition of Samuel Johnson's writings was published by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins, in 1787.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 745g
• ISBN-13: 9781108031806
• ISBN-10: 1108031803
• Artikelnr.: 33628601

Autorenporträt

Samuel Johnson was an English writer who was born on September 18, 1709, and died on December 13, 1784. He was called "Dr. Johnson" by many people. He was a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he was "possibly the most famous writer in English history." Johnson became famous in his later years, and after he died, more and more people thought he had a lasting effect on literary criticism. Some even said he was the only truly great critic of English literature. In the 20th century, his ideas shaped the way people thought about literature, and his influence on biography will last for a long time. Johnson's Dictionary had a big impact on Modern English, and it was the best dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary came along 150 years later. The biographer of Samuel Johnson, Walter Jackson Bate, chose James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson as "the most famous single work of biographical art in all of literature."

Inhaltsangabe

Political Tracts: The false alarm [1770]; Thoughts on the late transactions
respecting Falkland's Islands [1771]; The patriot, addressed to the
electors of Great Britain [1774]; Taxation no tyranny, an answer to the
resolutions and address of the American Congress [1775]; Political Essays:
Observations on the state of affairs in 1756; An introduction to the
political state of Great Britain, written in the year 1756; Miscellaneous
Essays: Review of the Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, by Thomas
Blackwell; Review of four letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Dr. Bentley,
containing some arguments in proof of a deity; Review of a philosophical
enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful; Review
of a free enquiry into the nature and origin of evil; Review of A Journal
of eight days journey, from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames ... by Mr.
H****; Reply to a paper in the Gazetteer of May 26th, 1757; Introduction to
the proceedings of the committee appointed to manage the contributions
begun at London, December 18th, 1758, for cloathing French prisoners of
war; On the bravery of the English common soldiers; Considerations on the
plans offered for the construction of Black Friars Bridge, in three letters
to the printer of the Gazetteer, 1759; Some thoughts on agriculture, both
ancient and modern; Further thoughts on agriculture; A Journey to the
Western Islands of Scotland.