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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 4
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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 4 contains the third 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 set a new standard for English
literary biography. Although not all of the subjects have been
regarded as eminent by posterity, the work was a great success. The
volume also includes miscellaneous historical and literary
biographies of figures such as Paolo Sarpi, Sir Francis Drake and
Roger Ascham.
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