{"product_id":"the-works-of-samuel-johnson-samuel-johnson-9781108031721","title":"The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets","description":"Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84) 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 regarded as eminent by posterity, and Johnson was criticised for brusque treatment of well-connected courtier poets now largely forgotten, the work was a great success.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1108031722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781108031721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.08d","brand":"Samuel Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44067077619967,"sku":"9781108031721","price":55.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e940457-4eaa-4acc-aba3-78a18c17d3c4.jpg?v=1685411057","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-works-of-samuel-johnson-samuel-johnson-9781108031721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}