Samuel Johnson - Brossura

Wilson-Smith, Timothy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1904341810 ISBN 13: 9781904341819

Casa editrice: Haus Pub, 2004

Riassunto

The poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson was one of the pre-eminent figures of 18th-century English letters. Johnson was also a legendary wit and conversationalist, whose sharp-tongued pronouncements and many eccentricities are well recorded in Boswell's classic Life. In 1755 he published the first proper dictionary of the English language, defining some 40,000 wordswith great verve. In it he defined a lexicographer as a "harmless drudge" His essays on Shakespeare, his Lives of the Poets and his extensive periodical essays were all seminal works in their field and his philosophical romance Rasselas is as pungent today as ever.

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Recensione:

'As a historical record, the book can't be faulted.' --Focus Magazine

'Intellectually satisfying' --Daily Telegraph

L'autore:

Timothy Wilson Smith was the author of the prize-winning Delacroix (1992), Napoleon and his Artists (1996), Caravaggio(1998), and Napoleon: Man of War.

Timothy Wilson Smith was the author of the prize-winning Delacroix (1992), Napoleon and his Artists (1996), Caravaggio (1998), Napoleon: Man of War, Man of Peace (2002). He had degrees in History and English, taught at Eton College, lectured at the National Portrait Gallery and broadcast on the BBC. He died in July 2006.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Haus Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1904341810
• ISBN 13: 9781904341819
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192