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Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Catherine Neal Parke
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press

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Catherine N. Parke offers new readings of Johnson's major prose writings, the familiar and the not so familiar. Through an inquiry into the centrality of biogra
Samuel Johnson
Language: en
Pages: 544
Authors: Peter Martin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-16 - Publisher: Hachette UK

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The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist
Domestick Privacies
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: David Wheeler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-21 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Biography was Samuel Johnson's favorite among literary genres, and his Lives of the Poets is often regarded as the capstone of his career. The central place of
The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works
Language: en
Pages: 434
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Samuel Johnson
Language: en
Pages: 469
Authors: David Nokes
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Macmillan

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In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere r