The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.University of Georgia Press, 15.8.2011 - 592 sivua This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life. Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. Hawkins was Johnson's friend and legal adviser and the chief executor of his will. He knew Johnson longer and in many respects better than other biographers, including Boswell, who made unacknowledged use of Hawkins's Life and helped orchestrate the critical attacks that consigned the book to obscurity. Sir John Hawkins had special insight into Johnson's mental states at various points in his life, his early days in London, his association with the Gentleman's Magazine, and his political views and writings. Hawkins's use of historical and cultural details, an uncommon literary device at the time, produced one of the earliest "life and times" biographies in our language. The Introduction by O M Brack, Jr., covers the history of the composition, publication, and reception of the Life and provides a context in which it should be read. Annotations address historical, literary, and linguistic uncertainties, and a full textual apparatus documents how Brack arrived at this definitive text of Hawkins's Life. |
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... rendered insolvent, if not, asJohnson told me, an ac- tual bankrupt. The non-attainment of a degree, which after a certain standing is conferred almost of course, he regretted not: it is true, he soon felt the want of one; but ample ...
... rendered into English from the French, "a voyage to Abyssinia,"66 which has since appeared to be that of Padre Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese Jesuit, with the additions of Mons. l'Abbe Le Grand, very curious and entertaining, of which the ...
... rendered by excessive heats and rains pestiferous, and to engage in perilous journies across desarts70 infested by banditti, in perpetual fear of them and of wild beasts, the tokens of whose depredations marked their way. When they ...
... rendered them and their doctrine odious. The peace of the country and their residence in it were become incompatible: they were accordingly delivered into the hands of the Turks; and experienced, from a little troop sent to convoy them ...
... render him an object of imitation, and possibly of ridicule, with his pupils. It may be remembered that in a preceding ... rendered famous by havingbeen the dwelling-place ofMr. HenryWelby,91 a gentleman ofwhom it is related in a printed ...
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Notes to the Text | 367 |
Textual Commentary | 451 |
List of Emendations | 453 |
WordDivision | 457 |
Historical Collation | 459 |
List of Cancellations in the 1787 First Edition | 475 |
Preliminaries to Volume I of The Works of Samuel Johnson LLD 1787 | 479 |
Index | 483 |