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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... letter depends , after all , not only on what it says but on whom it addresses . Whatever its larger significance may be , the letter makes its mark first of all as a fine piece of writing , directed to a specific occasion . Like a very ...
... letter , before and after it was published , responds to its deliberate fashioning of a myth . Author and Patron swell into allegorical figures , two individuals playing their parts in an eternal morality play . Hence the letter was ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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