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Samuel Johnson (Life & Times) - Softcover

Wilson-Smith, Timothy

 
9781904341819: Samuel Johnson (Life & Times)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1904341810 ISBN 13: 9781904341819
Verlag: Haus Publishing, 2005

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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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

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Verlag
Haus Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1904341810
ISBN 13 
9781904341819
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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