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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets (Paperback)
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies, Volume 8
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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 8 contains The Idler, the 103
essays originally published by Johnson in the Universal Chronicle
between 1758 and 1760, and published in one volume in 1761. These
were more relaxed and rambling in style than those published in The
Rambler, and were very popular. A common thread is the follies of
the literary world - Johnson defines criticism as 'a study by which
men grow important and formidable at very small expense'. Others
touch on marriage, scholarship, and travelling.
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