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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 March 2012
    02 June 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139056397
    9781108031714
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139056397
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.8kg, 636 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    Dr Samuel Johnson (1709–84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works - commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity - was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 1 is entirely devoted to a biography of Johnson by Hawkins, his close friend. Although Boswell's 1791 Life is much better known, Hawkins had been acquainted with Johnson for far longer, and was present at his death. Although his narrative is less colourful than that of Boswell, he had a better understanding of some aspects of Johnson's character, especially regarding his religious beliefs, and Boswell did not hesitate to borrow from this work.

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