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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. "...but a succession of prefaces..." -Through the Magic Door, p. 57 In 1779, Johnson gave the world a luminous proof that the vigour of his mind in all its faculties, whether memory, judgement, or imagination, was not in the least abated; for this year came out the first four volumes of his Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the most eminent of the English Poets, published by the booksellers of London. The remaining volumes came out in the year 1780. --James Boswell, in Life of Johnson " The booksellers having determined to publish a body of English Poetry, I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of each author; an undertaking, as it was then presented to my mind, not very tedious or difficult. My purpose was only to have allotted to every poet an advertisement, like that which we find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates, and a general character; but I have been led beyoud my intention, I hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure." From the bookseller’s advertisement, quoted by Boswell in Life of Johnson. He also quotes Johnson’s comment: " Some time in March I finished ' The Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them :—" Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety." sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Samuel Johnson fue un critico fiel a la doctrina clasica, defensor a ultranza de la sencillez y la sinceridad, moral y estetica. Las Vidas es la obra de historia literaria mas importante para conocer desde dentro un dilatado e importantisimo periodo de la poesia inglesa: el que discurre desde el final de la poesia metafisica hasta los albores del romanticismo. Constituye, ademas, una excelente coleccion de relatos biograficos narrados desde una perspectiva personal, ingeniosa e inteligente, en la que la presencia del autor se manifiesta constantemente. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)821.009Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions History, description, critical appraisal of English poetry not limited by time period or kind of formClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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