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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... hand in the volume , he gives no hint of it either in his preface to " Sheffield " or in the " Pope . " Nor does he allude to the information he cites in this note . For AP's epi- taph on Edmund Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham ( d . 1735 ) ...
... hand in the volume , he gives no hint of it either in his preface to " Sheffield " or in the " Pope . " Nor does he allude to the information he cites in this note . For AP's epi- taph on Edmund Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham ( d . 1735 ) ...
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... hand affects me more than it does yourself . " OR's biography had also included Pope's description of his injury ... hand in hand to posterity ; not in the stiff forms of learned Authors , flattering each other , and setting the rest of ...
... hand affects me more than it does yourself . " OR's biography had also included Pope's description of his injury ... hand in hand to posterity ; not in the stiff forms of learned Authors , flattering each other , and setting the rest of ...
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... hand . We do well , moreover , to heed the guardians at the gate , each a brand of absolutism . Neither solip- sistic indeterminacy , on the one hand , nor monolithic essentialism , on the other will do . DeMaria's point is salutary ...
... hand . We do well , moreover , to heed the guardians at the gate , each a brand of absolutism . Neither solip- sistic indeterminacy , on the one hand , nor monolithic essentialism , on the other will do . DeMaria's point is salutary ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 93 | 13 |
Description | 19 |
Johnsons Source Texts and Methods of Noting | 29 |
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