{"product_id":"the-works-of-samuel-johnson-ll-d-together-with-his-life-and-notes-on-his-lives-of-the-poets-paperback-9781108031745","title":"The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.; Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108031745","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\"\u003e9781108031745, 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\"\u003e646 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.6 cm, 0.81 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 4 contains the third 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 set a new standard for English literary biography. Although not all of the subjects have been regarded as eminent by posterity, the work was a great success. The volume also includes miscellaneous historical and literary biographies of figures such as Paolo Sarpi, Sir Francis Drake and Roger Ascham.\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 concluded: Pope\u003cbr\u003e Pitt\u003cbr\u003e Thomson\u003cbr\u003e Watts\u003cbr\u003e A. Philips\u003cbr\u003e West\u003cbr\u003e Collins\u003cbr\u003e Dyer\u003cbr\u003e Shenstone\u003cbr\u003e Young\u003cbr\u003e Mallet\u003cbr\u003e Akenside\u003cbr\u003e Gray\u003cbr\u003e Lyttelton\u003cbr\u003e Miscellaneous Lives: Father Paul Sarpi\u003cbr\u003e Boerhaave\u003cbr\u003e Blake\u003cbr\u003e Sir Francis Drake\u003cbr\u003e Barretier\u003cbr\u003e Morin\u003cbr\u003e Burman\u003cbr\u003e Sydenham\u003cbr\u003e Sheynel\u003cbr\u003e Cave\u003cbr\u003e King of Prussia\u003cbr\u003e Browne\u003cbr\u003e Ascham.\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":46266027704600,"sku":"9781108031745","price":42.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108031745i.jpg?v=1694873639","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-9781108031745","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}