In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Gol...
In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Goldsmith, Burney and Burke, and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties and obsessions also darkened Johnson's private hours, and Boswell's attentiveness to every facet of Johnson's character makes this biography as moving as it is entertaining. In this entirely new and unabridged edition, David Womersley's introduction examines the motives behind Boswell's work, and the differences between the two men that drew them to each other. It also contains chronologies of Boswell and Johnson, appendices and comprehensive indexes, including biographical details.
James Boswell (1740-1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh. He is best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson. Boswell is known for taking voracious notes on the grand tour of Europe that he took as a young nobleman and, subsequently, of his tour to Scotland with Johnson. He also recorded meetings and conversations with eminent individuals belonging to 'Th...
James Boswell (1740-1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh. He is best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson. Boswell is known for taking voracious notes on the grand tour of Europe that he took as a young nobleman and, subsequently, of his tour to Scotland with Johnson. He also recorded meetings and conversations with eminent individuals belonging to 'The Club', including David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith. Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709 and was educated at Lichfield Grammar School and, for a short time, at Pembroke College, Oxford. In 1735 he married Elizabeth Jervis Porter and in 1737 moved to London. There, he became a regular contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, but struggled to earn a living from writing. His London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal was published anonymously in 1738 and attracted some attention. From 1750 to 1752 he issued the Rambler, a periodical written almost entirely by himself, and consolidated his position as a notable moral essayist with some twenty-five essays in the Adventurer. When his Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755, Johnson took on the proportions of a literary monarch in the London of his day. In need of money to visit his sick mother, he wrote Rasselas (1759) reportedly in the evenings of one week, finishing a couple of days after his mother's death. In 1763 Boswell became his faithful follower and it is mainly due to him that we owe our intimate knowledge of Johnson. Johnson's last major work was Lives of the Poets. He died in December 1784. David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on English literature from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century. For Penguin he has edited Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Augustan Critical Writing, Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful and Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings, and Samuel Johnson's Selected Essays.
How wonderful, how unsearchable are the ways of GOD! Johnson, who was blest with all the powers of genius and understanding in a degree far above the ordinary state of human nature, was at the same ti...How wonderful, how unsearchable are the ways of GOD! Johnson, who was blest with all the powers of genius and understanding in a degree far above the ordinary state of human nature, was at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive.(展开)
由秋入冬，终于听完了，忍不住又从头听起。像是认识了两位老朋友，妙语解颐，出门时最可靠的同行者。博尔赫斯说《约翰逊传》是两个主人公构成的喜剧，也多亏了鲍斯威尔，书中的约翰逊才会以朋友的面貌出现（虽然是a most venerable friend），而不是文坛高处的神祇。能清楚感受到他对Chesterton的影响。与这本书同行的时光总是非常愉快，除了最后一年——这是怎样的最后一年啊。Johnson作...由秋入冬，终于听完了，忍不住又从头听起。像是认识了两位老朋友，妙语解颐，出门时最可靠的同行者。博尔赫斯说《约翰逊传》是两个主人公构成的喜剧，也多亏了鲍斯威尔，书中的约翰逊才会以朋友的面貌出现（虽然是a most venerable friend），而不是文坛高处的神祇。能清楚感受到他对Chesterton的影响。与这本书同行的时光总是非常愉快，除了最后一年——这是怎样的最后一年啊。Johnson作为肉体凡胎的脆弱性在此袒露无疑，他面对死亡的恐惧、无助、惶惑与和解与尤瑟纳尔笔下的皇帝临终晤言相比也毫不逊色。不会有人说得比切斯特顿更好了：「There he is the mighty voice of all flesh; heroic because it is timid.」(展开)
Perhaps the first biography ever written, and certainly the last.
建议有条件的人去读Clarendon的版本, ed. G. B. Hill, revised and enlarged by L. F. Powell, 6 vols., 1934-50; vols. V-VI (2nd ed.), 1964.
不建议读Womersl...Perhaps the first biography ever written, and certainly the last.
建议有条件的人去读Clarendon的版本, ed. G. B. Hill, revised and enlarged by L. F. Powell, 6 vols., 1934-50; vols. V-VI (2nd ed.), 1964.
不建议读Womersley编的Johnson选集(21st-Century Oxford Authors), 错误非常多。(展开)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)，英国人，政治思想保守，文学崇尚古典主义，注重伦理。乍看之下，似乎是个迂腐老头的形象，可是偶然翻开这本书，就被他充满机锋、措辞优雅的语言吸引。虽然这本书是用18世纪的英语写成的，读起来有点困难，还是决定把它啃完。这里先引几段文字： "...
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5 有用 路德喵 2011-08-27 11:43:04
How wonderful, how unsearchable are the ways of GOD! Johnson, who was blest with all the powers of genius and understanding in a degree far above the ordinary state of human nature, was at the same ti... How wonderful, how unsearchable are the ways of GOD! Johnson, who was blest with all the powers of genius and understanding in a degree far above the ordinary state of human nature, was at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive. (展开)
11 有用 野次馬 2023-01-13 20:51:26 美国
由秋入冬，终于听完了，忍不住又从头听起。像是认识了两位老朋友，妙语解颐，出门时最可靠的同行者。博尔赫斯说《约翰逊传》是两个主人公构成的喜剧，也多亏了鲍斯威尔，书中的约翰逊才会以朋友的面貌出现（虽然是a most venerable friend），而不是文坛高处的神祇。能清楚感受到他对Chesterton的影响。与这本书同行的时光总是非常愉快，除了最后一年——这是怎样的最后一年啊。Johnson作... 由秋入冬，终于听完了，忍不住又从头听起。像是认识了两位老朋友，妙语解颐，出门时最可靠的同行者。博尔赫斯说《约翰逊传》是两个主人公构成的喜剧，也多亏了鲍斯威尔，书中的约翰逊才会以朋友的面貌出现（虽然是a most venerable friend），而不是文坛高处的神祇。能清楚感受到他对Chesterton的影响。与这本书同行的时光总是非常愉快，除了最后一年——这是怎样的最后一年啊。Johnson作为肉体凡胎的脆弱性在此袒露无疑，他面对死亡的恐惧、无助、惶惑与和解与尤瑟纳尔笔下的皇帝临终晤言相比也毫不逊色。不会有人说得比切斯特顿更好了：「There he is the mighty voice of all flesh; heroic because it is timid.」 (展开)
8 有用 雅鸦湖居士 2022-05-28 09:57:21
最好的案头书了，又经典又经看。历时很久，去年也终于把稿子看完了。参考手头的一些老书，配了插图（有黑白有彩色）。译者蒲隆先生参考多种版本，整理了大量注释，还附加了各种材料。《约翰生传》全译本在路上（姑且说走了一半路程吧）。
0 有用 已注销 2017-02-15 17:02:30
封面是的，读的我觉得下午四点真无聊
1 有用 m_scriblerus 2024-02-04 12:58:56 美国
Perhaps the first biography ever written, and certainly the last. 建议有条件的人去读Clarendon的版本, ed. G. B. Hill, revised and enlarged by L. F. Powell, 6 vols., 1934-50; vols. V-VI (2nd ed.), 1964. 不建议读Womersl... Perhaps the first biography ever written, and certainly the last. 建议有条件的人去读Clarendon的版本, ed. G. B. Hill, revised and enlarged by L. F. Powell, 6 vols., 1934-50; vols. V-VI (2nd ed.), 1964. 不建议读Womersley编的Johnson选集(21st-Century Oxford Authors), 错误非常多。 (展开)