A Johnson Sampler (Nonpareil Book)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1567921302 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Thoughts and expression; not just the quick quips." according to Frank Lynch. .I am so glad that this book is finally back in print. For many people, their exposure to Samuel Johnson is limited to the short witticisms, or the one line quotations in Bartlett's. There have been noteworthy efforts to go beyond this (and Stephen Daenckert's "The Quotable Johnson" is a good step in that direction, though of somewhat limited
About the Author Jack Lynch, a Johnson scholar and professor of English at Rutgers University, is the editor of "Samuel Johnson's Dictionary" and the author of "The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson,"
Time and again, in whatever direction we go, we meet Johnson returning on the way back.". Samuel Johnson is today far too little read, enjoyed, and appreciated. Curwen's sampler, "The finest collection, by far, of the wit and wisdom of the most quotable of writers. Pulitzer Prize winner Jackson Bate said this of Mr. Sources for each quotation, a list of suggested reading, and an excellent index are included. Maclean of Mull declared was "just a hogshead of sense," has far more to say to us than Boswell, and certainly more to say about things of pressing interest to the ordinary man of our age.Curwen has sifted everything that Johnson wrote, as well as his reported conversations, to present the sage in all his moods and on a wide range of subjects reading and writing, youth and age, wooing and wedding, law and government, religion, education, business, and his fellow men. Ironically, Boswell is now perhaps as famous as the man he set out to immortalize, but Johnson himself, whom Dr
Jack Lynch, a Johnson scholar and professor of English at Rutgers University, is the editor of "Samuel Johnson's Dictionary" and the author of "The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson,"