Biographies of Famous English Poets. In 3 Volumes
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Biographies of Famous English Poets. In 3 Volumes
199.99 €
It is no exaggeration to say: the reader is faced with an epoch-making book. For the first time in Russian - a complete edition of the famous "Life Descriptions..." Samuel Johnson, an intellectual whose name has become synonymous with the second half of the XVIII century in England and beyond. A great lexicographer and philologist, creator of the famous "Dictionary of the English Language" - Johnson was also an impeccable stylist, whose style was guided by many authors of subsequent generations up to Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey. As if pulling apart the veil of centuries, Johnson was ahead of his time: he was the first, in the age of King George III, announced that the main connoisseur of creativity - not a highbrow critic, but the "ordinary reader" - the one who is in the thick of literary life, who, the only one who can give an unbiased assessment of the work. For the English, Johnson remains to this day the most important aesthetic and moral authority.
The body of the monument includes 52 hagiographies - biographies of British poets, from tiny sketches, reminiscent of finely chiseled gems, to unfolding, truly epic, novels, captivating the reader and transporting him to distant times. Johnson is not without reason known as a reformer of the biographical genre. His biographies are not dry summaries of facts and dates, but bright, spiritualized texts in which the life of bygone eras pulsates, and the characters themselves come to the reader from the pages. Here - historical anecdotes and embarrassments, witty remarks and caustic remarks, and even real crime dramas. In his biographies, Johnson revealed two golden ages of English poetry: his immortal work neighbors such luminaries as the thundering Milton and the majestic Pope, the witty Swift and the exquisite Addison, and many others. The biographies include lengthy (sometimes a dozen pages long!) excerpts from their works, many of which are translated into Russian for the first time - a real gift for a lover of English poetry!
The body of the monument includes 52 hagiographies - biographies of British poets, from tiny sketches, reminiscent of finely chiseled gems, to unfolding, truly epic, novels, captivating the reader and transporting him to distant times. Johnson is not without reason known as a reformer of the biographical genre. His biographies are not dry summaries of facts and dates, but bright, spiritualized texts in which the life of bygone eras pulsates, and the characters themselves come to the reader from the pages. Here - historical anecdotes and embarrassments, witty remarks and caustic remarks, and even real crime dramas. In his biographies, Johnson revealed two golden ages of English poetry: his immortal work neighbors such luminaries as the thundering Milton and the majestic Pope, the witty Swift and the exquisite Addison, and many others. The biographies include lengthy (sometimes a dozen pages long!) excerpts from their works, many of which are translated into Russian for the first time - a real gift for a lover of English poetry!
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