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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... offers to help him out with poems , inscriptions , " short literary Dissertations in Latin or English , Critical Remarks on Authors Ancient or Modern , forgotten Poems that deserve Revival , or loose pieces , like Floyers [ on Cold ...
... offer'd my Service for a secret Spy to the State ; but had not Credit enough even for that . When it was indeed very ... offers the obituary of an aristocrat unfairly deprived of honor and riches , as well as a hero of literary history ...
... offer better hopes . Yet he also knows the value of prey- ing on his readers ' minds , like an uneasy conscience ... offers a tribute to the power of the new fiction to capture that sense of life , as well as a warn- ing against the ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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