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Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose

by Frank Brady and William Wimsatt
Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose

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ISBN13: 9780520035522
ISBN10: 0520035526



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This is a major new selection of Samuel Johnson's best work, delightfully introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and scrupulously annotated by Frank Brady and Mr. Wimsatt.

Samuel Johnson, the only writer in English since the Renaissance to give his name to a literary period, was the center of English letters in his time. He was Dictionary Johnson, the lexicographer who had single-handedly settled the English language (it was hoped) on a firm basis; he was the author of a handful of fine poems, including two of the most remarkable satires of the century; he was a moralist whose Rambler and Idler essays, and novel-of-ideas Rasselas, provided a searching view of men and matters. And in his final years he produced his greatest work, that extraordinary combination of biography and criticism which came to be known as the Lives of the Poets.

This first extensive anthology of Johnson's writings to be published in many years emphasizes Johnson the writer. It responds to those aspects of Johnson's work of special interest to modern readers. It comprises a selection of Johnson's letters, all of his major poems (including London), Rasselas, twenty-one Rambler, nineteen Idlers, the Prefaces to the Dictionary and to the edition of Shakespeare, and the following Lives of the Poets: Cowley, Milton, Swift, Pope, Savage, Collins, and Gray.

All these works are extensively annotated and printed complete. Mr. Wimsatt, one of the outstanding Johnsonians of this century, provides in his Introduction a clear, connected biographical account of Johnson, stressing his writings. An up-to-date bibliography is also included. Johnson's varied accomplishments—as poet, as moralist, as biographer, as critic—are all amply represented.


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Frank Brady is Professor of English at the City University of New York; the late W. K. Wimsatt was Sterling Professor of English at Yale. Both editors have worked on the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell and are, by virtue of their extensive publication on Boswell and Johnson, among the leadign scholars of this period.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

A Calendar of His Career

Bibliographicacl Note

Letters

Poems

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Selections from The Rambler

Selections from The Idler

Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language

Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare

Lives of the Poets


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ISBN:
9780520035522
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
02/07/1978
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
English
Pages:
656
Height:
1.59IN
Width:
5.99IN
Thickness:
1.5 in.
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1978
UPC Code:
2800520035524
Author:
William Wimsatt
Editor:
Frank Brady
Author:
Frank Brady
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Editor:
William K. Wimsatt
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z

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