Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. This new biography illuminates the unknown Johnson: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge ... Read More
Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. This new biography illuminates the unknown Johnson: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed. Read Less
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Physical description; xviii, 522 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (chiefly color), 1 map, portraits (chiefly color); 25 cm. Contents; pt. I. Staffordshire Youth--1. Anecdotes of Beggary--2. Stepping on the Duckling--3. Leaping over the Rail--4. Two Benefactors--pt. II. Despondency and Hope--5. Oxford: Wielding a Scholar's Weapon--6. Horrible Imaginings--7. Stirrings in Birmingham--8. Taking a Wife--pt. III. Slow Rises Worth--9. Stranger in London--10. Sons ofMisery: Finding Richard Savage--11. 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd'--12. Wandering in the Midlands--pt. IV. 'Triumph: The Dictionary Years--13. London Revived: A Lion in Harness--14. A Lifeline: the Dictionary--15. Poetic Interludes--16. Terry and 'Amorous propensities'--17. The Triumph of the Moralist--18. Darkness Falls--19. Once More Unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary--pt. V. Depression, Shakespeare, Travel and Anger--20. Stalled--21. 'Suffering Chimeras'--22. 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations'--23. Boswell and Mrs Thrale--24. Shakespeare and the Living World--25. Coliseum of Beasts--26. Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary--27. The Road to the Hebrides--28. Politics and Travel--pt. VI. Biography and 'The Race With Death'--29. 'A Very Poor Creeper Upon the Earth'--30. Biographical Straitjacket--31. Losing Ground--32. The Last Days. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784). Authors, English 18th century Biography. Lexicographers Great Britain Biography. Critics Great Britain Biography. Very good cloth copy in a very good dust-wrapper; both copy and wrapper have a small but deep scuff to lower front spine. Binding entirely unaffected, and copy remains very well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.
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