A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson's Notes for the "Life of Pope"The Annotations, taken as a whole, establish that Johnson's main source in writing this life, and in constructing his interpretation of Pope's life and character, was Pope's published letters in the texts available to him. The notes also highlight Johnson's hitherto unrecognized original and very important contributions to Pope biography, primarily by their omissions, the topics in which they do not anticipate the manuscript text."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... Poets , can easily over- look the contexts in which Johnson originally wrote these works , as introductions and commentary for The English Poets . Had they been published in the form for which he designed them , they would con- stitute ...
... Poets , can easily over- look the contexts in which Johnson originally wrote these works , as introductions and commentary for The English Poets . Had they been published in the form for which he designed them , they would con- stitute ...
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... Poets ( 1779 ) . In the original design , the preface would thus have stood as an introduction to the volumes containing Pope's poetry . That pattern remains at least as important as the chronology of composition which makes this the ...
... Poets ( 1779 ) . In the original design , the preface would thus have stood as an introduction to the volumes containing Pope's poetry . That pattern remains at least as important as the chronology of composition which makes this the ...
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... POETS Samuel Johnson , Prefaces Biographical and Critical to an Edition of the English Poets . London , 1779–1781 . My refer- ences to individual prefaces are in quotation marks , fol- lowed by pagination : " Pope . " The Lives of the ...
... POETS Samuel Johnson , Prefaces Biographical and Critical to an Edition of the English Poets . London , 1779–1781 . My refer- ences to individual prefaces are in quotation marks , fol- lowed by pagination : " Pope . " The Lives of the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 93 | 13 |
Description | 19 |
Johnsons Source Texts and Methods of Noting | 29 |
Copyright | |
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