Past Masters

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 markupon 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192875930
• ISBN13: 9780192875938
• Release Date: November 2099
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages