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Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Aspects of Samuel Johnson; essays on his arts, mind, afterlife, and politics.

Weinbrot, Howard D.

Univ. of Delaware Press

2005

417 pages

$40.00

Hardcover

PR3534

This volume presents 16 essays by Weinbrot (English, U. of Wisconsin) on Samuel Johnson in his various roles as lexicographer, poet, prose stylist, historical figure, and literary and political thinker. Sample topics include Johnson's use of a question-and-answer form in The Vanity of Human Wishes, Stockdale's response to his Lives of the Poets, and the roots of the ...

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