Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
Gateway / Henry Regnery Company (1964), Paperback, 408 pages
Description
If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.'In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical
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Awards
Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction (Literature)
Language
Original publication date
1779
ISBN
none
Local notes
also Oxford's World Classics 0199226741 (592 pages)