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The uncertainties that often dominate attempted 'readings' of his Life of Johnson help make his masterwork appear to be a contemporary of the great biographies of the twentieth century.... Lustig's collection of essays successfully supports the claims that Boswell's Life of Johnson is more than memory. As conscious artistry, it is a noble ...
Recollections of the Lake Poets is a collection of biographical essays written by the English author Thomas De Quincey.In these essays, originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine between 1834 and 1840, De Quincey provided some of the earliest, best informed and most candid accounts of the three Lake Poets, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, and others in ...
Kesten was born in Pidvolochysk (Galicia (Eastern Europe), Austro-Hungarian Empire) in 1900, a son of a Jewish merchant. [2] The family moved to Nuremberg in 1904. [3] [4] [5] In the early 1920s, while a student in Frankfurt, he was already writing plays and forging literary plans.
Plato taught at the Free African Schools, housed in the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church from 1840 [5] until 1847. [4] She was a member of the Talcott Street Congregational Church in Hartford. In 1841, at the age of 16, she published her only known book, entitled Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Poetry. [1]
A print of Samuel Johnson, based on a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, later used in the 1806 edition of the Lives of the Poets. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
He produced biographies, essays, plays, poetry, fictional letters, fables, short stories, and criticism. He is remembered best as a target of Alexander Pope in Pope's Dunciad and his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and as an enemy of Jonathan Swift. Due to Pope's caricature of Gildon as well as the volume and rapidity of his writings, Gildon has ...
Gallimaufry, A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits, is a 2020 collection of 57 essays, book reviews, and shorter pieces all by Joseph Epstein.Essay topics in this collection include authors, literature, biographies, writing, language (its use and misuse), universities, culture, Chicago and humor.
Aubrey's use of informants and his eye for the unusual provides much more vivid pictures than a biography based on documents could. He is frank but never malicious. The Brief Lives includes biographies of such figures as Francis Bacon , Robert Boyle , Thomas Browne , John Dee , Sir Walter Raleigh , Edmund Halley , Ben Jonson , Thomas Hobbes ...