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A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson's Notes for the 'Life of Pope.'.(Book Review)
From: Biography
Date: 20040622
Author:Clarke, Norma
Harriet Kirkley. A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson's Notes for the 'Life of Pope.' Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2002. 279 pp. ISBN 0-8387-5507-0, $48.50.
The title suggests that this book has a worthy but limited purpose: to provide a scholarly edition of the working notes made by Samuel Johnson when he was writing his "Life of Pope." The notes are mostly in the British Library among the papers of the Cambridgeshire antiquary William Cole, who was given them by George Steevens in 1782. Isaac Disraeli incorporated some of them in his Curiosities of Literature, and F. W. Hilles ...
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