LEADER 05289nam 2201069 a 450 001 9910778072803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-38297-7 010 $a9786612382970 010 $a0-520-90599-7 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520905993 035 $a(CKB)1000000000767190 035 $a(EBL)470811 035 $a(OCoLC)609849878 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000365548 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11925584 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365548 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10404855 035 $a(PQKB)11500675 035 $a(DE-B1597)520534 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520905993 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470811 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676292 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL238297 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470811 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000767190 100 $a20130402d1977 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSamuel Johnson$b[electronic resource] $eselected poetry and prose /$fedited with an introduction and notes by Frank Brady and W.K. Wimsatt 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d1977 215 $a1 online resource (655 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-03552-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): A Calendar Of His Career -- $tBibliographical Note -- $tLetters -- $tPoems -- $tThe History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia -- $tSelections from The Rambler -- $tSelections from The Idler -- $tPreface to A Dictionary of the English Language -- $tPreface to The Plays of William Shakespeare -- $tLives of the Poets 330 $aThis is a major new selection of Samuel Johnson's best work, delightfully introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and scrupulously annotated by Frank Brady and Mr. Wimsatt.Samuel Johnson, the only writer in English since the Renaissance to give his name to a literary period, was the center of English letters in his time. He was Dictionary Johnson, the lexicographer who had single-handedly settled the English language (it was hoped) on a firm basis; he was the author of a handful of fine poems, including two of the most remarkable satires of the century; he was a moralist whose Rambler and Idler essays, and novel-of-ideas Rasselas, provided a searching view of men and matters. And in his final years he produced his greatest work, that extraordinary combination of biography and criticism which came to be known as the Lives of the Poets.This first extensive anthology of Johnson's writings to be published in many years emphasizes Johnson the writer. It responds to those aspects of Johnson's work of special interest to modern readers. It comprises a selection of Johnson's letters, all of his major poems (including London), Rasselas, twenty-one Rambler, nineteen Idlers, the Prefaces to the Dictionary and to the edition of Shakespeare, and the following Lives of the Poets: Cowley, Milton, Swift, Pope, Savage, Collins, and Gray. All these works are extensively annotated and printed complete. Mr. Wimsatt, one of the outstanding Johnsonians of this century, provides in his Introduction a clear, connected biographical account of Johnson, stressing his writings. An up-to-date bibliography is also included. Johnson's varied accomplishments-as poet, as moralist, as biographer, as critic-are all amply represented. 606 $aEnglish poetry$x18th century 606 $aEnglish poetry$y18th century 606 $aEnglish prose literature$x18th century 606 $aEnglish prose literature$y18th century 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisacsh 610 $a18th century. 610 $aaesthetics. 610 $abritish literature. 610 $aclassics. 610 $acollins. 610 $acorrespondence. 610 $acowley. 610 $adictionary. 610 $adrama. 610 $aenglish language. 610 $agray. 610 $aidler. 610 $ajohnson on shakespeare. 610 $aletters. 610 $alexicography. 610 $alinguistics. 610 $aliterary criticism. 610 $aliterary theory. 610 $alives of the poets. 610 $alondon poem. 610 $amillion. 610 $anature on man. 610 $apoetry. 610 $apope. 610 $apreface to the dictionary. 610 $arambler. 610 $arasselas. 610 $asatire. 610 $asavage. 610 $asocial commentary. 610 $aswift. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$x18th century. 615 0$aEnglish poetry 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$x18th century. 615 0$aEnglish prose literature 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. 676 $a821.53 700 $aBrady$b Frank, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0152894 701 $aBrady$b Frank$0152894 701 $aWimsatt$b W. K$01502705 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778072803321 996 $aSamuel Johnson$93730630 997 $aUNINA