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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... cite material directly when he writes it on a verso than when he writes it on a recto , presumably because it had been added and so was not continuous . Letters he most often cites by date , occasionally by recipient or author . His ...
... cite material directly when he writes it on a verso than when he writes it on a recto , presumably because it had been added and so was not continuous . Letters he most often cites by date , occasionally by recipient or author . His ...
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... cite " Plato , Lucan & c . " WW altered the attribution to P. James Welwood cites the fable in his preface to Rowe's translation of Pharsalia , SJ's primary source for " Rowe . " AP's parody of the convention , " To the Author of a Poem ...
... cite " Plato , Lucan & c . " WW altered the attribution to P. James Welwood cites the fable in his preface to Rowe's translation of Pharsalia , SJ's primary source for " Rowe . " AP's parody of the convention , " To the Author of a Poem ...
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... cites both Spence and the 1751 Works on this side , con- tinues reading in the Newcastle MS , he encounters contradiction . Spence apparently confused AP's Messiah with his fourth Pastoral . Otherwise , his note to AP's remarks about ...
... cites both Spence and the 1751 Works on this side , con- tinues reading in the Newcastle MS , he encounters contradiction . Spence apparently confused AP's Messiah with his fourth Pastoral . Otherwise , his note to AP's remarks about ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 93 | 13 |
Description | 19 |
Johnsons Source Texts and Methods of Noting | 29 |
Copyright | |
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