In this biography - a work that won three of the most prestigious literary prizes this country offers - W. Jackson Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's...
Mr. Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the poet's art and his larger, more broadly humane development.
"Includes important critical works-many in their entirety-by Aristotle, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot and others."--Back cover.
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Reprint of the 1939 ed. published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge.