{"product_id":"the-works-of-samuel-johnson-ll-d-together-with-his-life-and-notes-on-his-lives-of-the-poets-paperback-9781108031738","title":"The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.; Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108031738","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTogether with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collected edition of Samuel Johnson's writings was published by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins, in 1787.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSamuel Johnson (Author), John Hawkins (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108031738, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e428 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDr 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 3 contains the second part of his Lives of the Poets, his last major work. This was a commission to provide short accounts of over fifty poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and it set a new standard for English literary biography. Although not all of the subjects have been regarded as eminent by posterity, and Johnson was criticised for brusque treatment of well-connected courtier poets now largely forgotten, the work was a great success.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, continued: King\u003cbr\u003e Sprat\u003cbr\u003e Halifax\u003cbr\u003e Parnell\u003cbr\u003e Garth\u003cbr\u003e Rowe\u003cbr\u003e Addison\u003cbr\u003e Hughes\u003cbr\u003e Sheffield\u003cbr\u003e Buckinghamshire\u003cbr\u003e Prior\u003cbr\u003e Congreve\u003cbr\u003e Blackmore\u003cbr\u003e Fenton\u003cbr\u003e Gay\u003cbr\u003e Granville\u003cbr\u003e Yalden\u003cbr\u003e Tickell\u003cbr\u003e Hammond\u003cbr\u003e Somervile\u003cbr\u003e Savage\u003cbr\u003e Swift\u003cbr\u003e Broome.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266027442456,"sku":"9781108031738","price":36.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108031738i.jpg?v=1694873680","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-works-of-samuel-johnson-ll-d-together-with-his-life-and-notes-on-his-lives-of-the-poets-paperback-9781108031738","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}