Samuel Johnson
By: W. Jackson Bate.
Edition: 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
Series: A Harvest/HBJ book
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780156792592
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784; Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : The formative years. Birth and family; early illness; title: First years at school; title: The Lichfield Upper Grammar School; title: A second beginning : Cornelius Ford and the year at Stourbridge; title: Poems at Stourbridge; title: Back at Lichfield; a further model : Gilbert Walmesley; title: Oxford; title: Part 2 : The years of trial and obscurity. Breakdown and despair; psychology of the young Johnson; title: Efforts to begin again; Birmingham; the first book; title: Johnson's marriage; the school at Edial; title: The move to London; first writings there; temporary separation from his wife; title: Range as a journalist; Johnson's politics generally; Parliamentary debates; speed in writing; title: Lost in Grub Street; biography and the world of books; title: Part 3 : The middle of the way : the moral pilgrimage. Entrance into middle age; uncertainties; problems in the marriage; title: Storming the main gate; the Dictionary; title: Personal life; Tetty's illness and death; a straggler; title: The moral landscape : the Vanity of Human Wishes and the Rambler; title: The condition of man : Johnson as a moralist; title: Later forties : growing difficulties; the start on Shakespeare; Rasselas; title: Into his fifties; the pension; Boswell; the club; title: Part 4 : The Johnson legend. Approaching breakdown; religious struggles; fear of insanity; title: Shakespeare; title: Toward recovery; the Thrales; law lectures; title: Early sixties; title: Writings; continuing religious struggles; title: Travel : the Hebrides; Wales; title: Humor and wit; title: Indian summer; title: Lives of the Poets; title: Gathering clouds; death of Henry Thrale; title: Loss of the Thrale family; failing health; title: Iam Moriturus; title: Short titles