An edition of Samuel Johnson
(1977)
Samuel Johnson
1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
by Walter Jackson Bate
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An account of Dr. Johnson's dramatic personal life, monumental genius, and boundless literary activities and impact follows him from poverty and hack work, through trial and tumult, to lionization as the unchallenged literary arbiter of his times.
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Samuel Johnson
1979, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Paperback
in English
- 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
0156792591 9780156792592
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Table of Contents
Part 1 : The formative years. Birth and family; early illness
First years at school
The Lichfield Upper Grammar School
A second beginning : Cornelius Ford and the year at Stourbridge
Poems at Stourbridge
Back at Lichfield; a further model : Gilbert Walmesley
Oxford
Part 2 : The years of trial and obscurity. Breakdown and despair; psychology of the young Johnson
Efforts to begin again; Birmingham; the first book
Johnson's marriage; the school at Edial
The move to London; first writings there; temporary separation from his wife
Range as a journalist; Johnson's politics generally; Parliamentary debates; speed in writing
Lost in Grub Street; biography and the world of books
Part 3 : The middle of the way : the moral pilgrimage. Entrance into middle age; uncertainties; problems in the marriage
Storming the main gate; the Dictionary
Personal life; Tetty's illness and death; a straggler
The moral landscape : the Vanity of Human Wishes and the Rambler
The condition of man : Johnson as a moralist
Later forties : growing difficulties; the start on Shakespeare; Rasselas
Into his fifties; the pension; Boswell; the club
Part 4 : The Johnson legend. Approaching breakdown; religious struggles; fear of insanity
Shakespeare
Toward recovery; the Thrales; law lectures
Early sixties
Writings; continuing religious struggles
Travel : the Hebrides; Wales
Humor and wit
Indian summer
Lives of the Poets
Gathering clouds; death of Henry Thrale
Loss of the Thrale family; failing health
Iam Moriturus
Short titles
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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