Johnson

Past Masters (Oxford)

by Pat Rogers

No one has a higher visibility in mid-Hanoverian culture or embodies so fully the temper of his time as Samuel Johnson. Crotchety and individualistic, even isolated, in his private circumstances, backward-looking and ulta-orthodox in many of his opinions, Johnson nevertheless made his mark upon his epoch in a unique fashion. In this volume Pat Rogers examines Johnson's position in his age and his relations with colleagues and friends, the breadth of his interests and the achievement of his writings, including the remarkable Dictionary, his edition of Shakespeare, and the immensely influential Lives of the Poets.

116 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993