Samuel JohnsonHe was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author." |
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... ( Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1951 ) , pp . 136-137 . 6. Allen Reddick describes the circumstances and reception of the Plan in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary , 1746-1773 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ...
... ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 ) , pp . 121-122 . 32. Letters 1 : 171 . 33. Twenty months of " visionary bustle " ( chap . 4 ) ; four months " resolving to lose no more time " ( chap . 4 ) ; ten months of " fruitless ...
... ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1946 ) . 45. JM 1 : 457 . 46. Marcus Walsh argues that the Dictionary “ is itself , in its many thou- sands of citations and glosses of Shakespearean usages , a major work of Shakespearean ...
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