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The Lives of the Poets: A Selection
The Lives of the Poets: A Selection
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If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more._x000D_

目次: 

Cowley Milton Rochester Dryden Congreve Gay Savage Swift Pope Gray

著者について: 

Roger Lonsdale was formerly Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. His publications include The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology; John Mullan teaches at University College London. He is a broadcaster and literary journalist, with a weekly column on fiction for the Guardian newspaper. He has edited Defoe's Roxana for OWC, and is the author of How Novels Work (OUP, 2006) and Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber, 2007).

"If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was."

In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess.

The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most diverting.

The Oxford World's Classics selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition and has an introduction by John Mullan. In this audio guide you can hear John Mullan introduce the work. Simply click on the links to listen.

Background
By the time Samuel Johnson came to write The Lives of the Poets, he was in his late sixties and the best-known man of letters in the land.
Hear more about his career[2:12]

This book came about as the result of a commission from a group of London booksellers.
Find out more about the project[1:55]

Reading the lives
The Lives of the Poets was, in John Mullan's words, "The final step in the Johnsonian creation of English literature" as a body of texts that could rival those of ancient Greece and Rome. [2:06]

The modern reader may be surprised by how irreverent Johnson is towards his subjects, even or especially towards those he admired the most.
Find out why [2:26]

Johnson was a brilliant critic and a wonderful close reader.
Hear more about Johnson's view of poetry and why he was so concerned with pointing out writers' faults. [4:46]
Listen to John Mullan explaining how he selected the lives included in this edition of the book. [1:33]
The complete audio guide can be downloaded here. [15:09]

商品情報

ISBN : 9780199226740

著者: 
Samuel Johnson; Roger Lonsdale
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560 ページ
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Paperback
サイズ
130 x 196 mm
刊行日
2009年05月
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Oxford World's Classics
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The Lives of the Poets: A Selection

The Lives of the Poets: A Selection

The Lives of the Poets: A Selection