The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Johnson Hawkins Paperback Volume 2

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets\nAuthor(s): Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108031721, 978-1108031721\nSynopsis\nDr Samuel Johnson [tel] is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works - commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity - was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 2 contains the first part of his Lives of the Poets, his last major work. This was a commission to provide short accounts of over fifty poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and set a new standard for English literary biography. Although not all of the subjects have been rega.