Shelley: the Golden YearsHarvard University Press, 1974 - Всего страниц: 669 Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was in his life a literary and social icon as no other age has produced. “Johnsonianissimus,” as Boswell called him, became in the hands of his first biographers the rationalist epitome and sage of Enlightenment. These clich s-though they contain elements of truth-distort the complexity of the public and private Johnson. Peter Martin portrays a Johnson wracked by recriminations, self-doubt, and depression-a man whose religious faith seems only to have deepened his fears. His essays, scholarship, biography, journalism, travel writing, sermons, fables, as well as other forms of prose and poetry in which he probed himself and the world around him, Martin shows, constituted rational triumphs against despair and depression. It is precisely the combination of enormous intelligence and frank personal weakness that makes Johnson’s writing so compelling. Benefiting from recent critical scholarship that has explored new attitudes toward Johnson, Martin’s biography gives us a human and sympathetic portrait of Dr. Johnson. Johnson’s criticism of colonial expansion, his advocacy for the abolition of slavery, his encouragement of women writers, his treatment of his female friends as equals, and his concern for the underprivileged and poor make him a very “modern” figure. The Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography, published for the tercentenary of Johnson’s birth, is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable, flawed, and sympathetic figure than has been previously known. |
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... fact that he suppressed it did not mean that he had killed it . Shelley , then , in June and July 1814 was in the not uncommon situation of a man with an unsatisfactory marriage who was passionately in love with an- other woman . Few ...
... fact that both Shelley and Blake viewed society as progressive shows only that the idea was in the air ; and the fact that both shadowed forth this concept in symbolic poetry - as , indeed , did Keats in Hyperion - probably means no ...
... fact is he [ Hunt ] & Shelley are hurt & perhaps justly , at my not having showed them the affair [ Endymion ] officiously & from several hints I have had they appear much disposed to dissect & anatomize , any trip or slip I may have ...
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The Last Years in England | 1 |
Shelley in Italy | 64 |
Political Philosophy | 115 |
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