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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Page 165
... thinking , rethinking , and revising had been done before he wrote the MS text of " Pope . " The notes also provide some evidence that the act of noting facilitated the act of thinking , as surely 6 : JOHNSON AS READER : LINEARITY 165.
... thinking , rethinking , and revising had been done before he wrote the MS text of " Pope . " The notes also provide some evidence that the act of noting facilitated the act of thinking , as surely 6 : JOHNSON AS READER : LINEARITY 165.
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... thinking manifests initially , at least , as combination and comparison , mental activities Johnson describes as the precursors of judgment , assessment , and assimilation . His musing , like that of many others , often takes the form ...
... thinking manifests initially , at least , as combination and comparison , mental activities Johnson describes as the precursors of judgment , assessment , and assimilation . His musing , like that of many others , often takes the form ...
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... thinking , only truisms , “ Humankind is mortal , " can be construed as general , in the fullest sense . By analogy , Johnson's notes range from recording to reflecting , of- ten to issue in the process of accumulating more details ...
... thinking , only truisms , “ Humankind is mortal , " can be construed as general , in the fullest sense . By analogy , Johnson's notes range from recording to reflecting , of- ten to issue in the process of accumulating more details ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 93 | 13 |
Description | 19 |
Johnsons Source Texts and Methods of Noting | 29 |
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