A biographer at work
Samuel Johnson's notes for the "Life of Pope"
by Harriet Kirkley
"A Biographer at Work: Johnson's Notes for the "Life of Pope" contains an edition of hitherto unpublished notes. Samuel Johnson made them as he prepared to write the text of his biographical preface to Pope for the London booksellers' volumes, The English Poets. About one half of the total study is devoted to an edition of the notes, the usual questions about dating, systems of abbreviation and so on, plus the annotations required to illumine his brief, often cryptic, notes.
The Annotations, taken as a whole, establish that Johnson's main source in writing this life, and in constructing his interpretation of Pope's life and character, was Pope's published letters in the texts available to him. The notes also highlight Johnson's hitherto unrecognized original and very important contributions to Pope biography, primarily by their omissions, the topics in which they do not anticipate the manuscript text."--BOOK JACKET.
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A biographer at work: Samuel Johnson's notes for the "Life of Pope"
2002, Bucknell University Press, Associated University Presses
in English
0838755070 9780838755075
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index.
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