ผู้เขียน: Roger Lonsdale

No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such po …

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: ‘I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets’. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Sam …

No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such po …

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: ‘I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets’. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Sam …

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: ‘I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets’. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Sam …

‘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 looke …

‘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 looke …