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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Samuel Johnson
Edited by John Hawkins
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Series part Volume No. Volume 4
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:646
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781108031745
ClassificationsDewey:821.009
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 2 June 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.