James Boswell (1) (1740–1795)
Autor(a) de The Life of Samuel Johnson
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About the Author
James Boswell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1740 of an old and honored family. As a young man, Boswell was ambitious to have a literary career but reluctantly obeying the wishes of his father, a Scottish Judge, he followed a career in the law. He was admitted to the Scottish bar in 1766. mostrar mais However, his legal practice did not prevent him from writing a series of periodical essays, The Hypochondriac (1777-83), and his Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides (1785), was an account of the journey to the outer islands of Scotland undertaken with Samuel Johnson in 1773. In addition, Boswell wrote the impulsively frank Journals, private papers lost to history until they were discovered by modern scholars and issued in a multivolume set. Known during much of his life as Corsican Boswell for his authorship of An Account of Corsica in 1768, his first considerable work, Boswell now bears a name that is synonymous with biographer. The reason rests in the achievement of his Life of Samuel Johnson published in 1791, seven years after the death of Johnson. Boswell recorded in his diary the anxiety of the long-awaited encounter with Johnson, on May 16, 1763, in the back parlor of a London bookstore, and upon their first meeting he began collecting Johnson's conversations and opinions. Johnson was a daunting subject for a biographer, in part because of his extraordinary, outsized presence and, in part because Johnson himself was a pioneer in the art of literary biography. Boswell met the challenge by taking an anecdotal, year-by-year approach to the wealth of biographical material he gathered. mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por James Boswell
Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide) (1952) 248 exemplares
An account of Corsica; The journal of a tour to that island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli (1768) 68 exemplares
Boswell, the English Experiment, 1785-1789 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell) (1986) 36 exemplares
Boswell's Life of Johnson, including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into… (1887) 31 exemplares
Boswell, the Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell) (1981) 22 exemplares
The correspondence and other papers of James Boswell relating to the making of the Life of Johnson (1968) 14 exemplares
Dr. Johnson's table-talk : containing aphorisms on literature, life, and manners, with anecdotes of distinguished… (2007) 14 exemplares
A letter to the people of Scotland : on the alarming attempt to infringe the articles of the Union, and introduce a… 11 exemplares
A Shorter Boswell 9 exemplares
The principal corrections and additions to the first edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson 9 exemplares
The correspondence of James Boswell with certain members of The Club, including Oliver Goldsmith, Bishops Percy and… (1976) 8 exemplares
The correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate (1998) 7 exemplares
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769, Vol. 1: 1766-1767 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers James… (1993) 6 exemplares
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, vol. 1 6 exemplares
Boswell's correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and his Journal of a tour to Corsica (1879) 5 exemplares
The legal papers of James Boswell. Volume 2. In relation to cases in which Boswell first became involved in the period… (2013) 5 exemplares
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3 5 exemplares
Hardover 4 vol. Yale Edition of The Private Papers of James Boswell: London Journal 1762-1763; Boswell in Holland… 5 exemplares
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D. By JAMES BOSWELL 1963 Heritage Press in 3 VOLS. (1963) 4 exemplares
Ode by Dr. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale : upon their supposed approaching nuptials (2010) 4 exemplares
The Life of Samuel Johnson 1ST Modern Library Edition (Complete and Unabridged in One Volume) (1931) 4 exemplares
The life of Samuel Johnson together with a journal to the tour of the Hebrides Vol 3 (1906) 3 exemplares
Porzia Sansedoni : love-letters of James Boswell written in Italy, 1765 : with other records of his Italian tour 3 exemplares
PRIVATE PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL FROM MALAHIDE CASTLE. IN THE COLLECTION OF LT-COLONEL RALPH HEYWARD ISHAM. 20 VOLUMES. (1928) 3 exemplares
The Life of Samuel Johnson and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1966) 3 exemplares
Disputatio juridica, ad Tit. X. lib. XXXIII. Pand. de supellectile legata; quam favente numine, ex auctoritate… 3 exemplares
Boswell's Life of Johnson, in Two Volumes (Vol. I) 3 exemplares
Great Lives by Great Writers 3 exemplares
The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756-1795: Volume 1: 1756-1777 (Yale Editions of the… (1997) 3 exemplares
Boswell's note book, 1776-1777 : recording particulars of Johnson's early life communicated by him and others… 2 exemplares
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.. Vol.1 2 exemplares
Boswell's Book of bad verse: (a verse self-portrait) : or, Love poems and other verses : now first published from… (1974) 2 exemplares
The Life of Samuel Johnson vol 2 2 exemplares
Arte de la biografía — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The LIFE Of SAMUEL JOHNSON L.L.D. With Marginal Comments and Markings from Two Copies Annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale… (1938) 2 exemplares
The Life of Samuel Johnson, with Marginal Comments by Mrs Piazzi (3-Volume Set) Volume 2 2 exemplares
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including a Journal of a tour to the Hebrides Vol. II 2 exemplares
On the profession of a player : three essays 2 exemplares
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Complete Set of Two Volumes) (1837) 2 exemplares
The Life of Samuel Johnson, with Marginal Comments by Mrs Piazzi (3-Volume Set) Volume 1 2 exemplares
The Life of Samuel Johnson Volume I and II 2 exemplares
James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Volume 4: 1780-1784 (Yale… (2020) 2 exemplares
Life of Johnson in 2 vols. - Vol. 2 (1776-1784) 2 exemplares
The life of Samuel Johnson. Vol. 1-3 2 exemplares
Observations, good or bad, stupid or clever, serious or jocular, on Squire Foote's dramatic entertainment, intitled,… 2 exemplares
A letter to Robert Macqueen Lord Braxfield, on his promotion to be one of the judges of the High Court of Justiciary 2 exemplares
Verses, in the character of a Corsican at Shakespeare's jubilee : at Stratford-upon-Avon, Sept. 6, 1769 2 exemplares
The Douglas cause 2 exemplares
British essays in favour of the brave Corsicans: by several hands. Collected and published by James Boswell, Esq 2 exemplares
The journal of James Boswell 2 exemplares
The Works of James Boswell 2 exemplares
The Journal of James Boswell, 1774-1775. His threatened duel with William Miller, October 1774; His jaunt to London,… 2 exemplares
Life of Johnson I 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., II 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., III 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson Vol.1 and Vol.2 1 exemplar
Samuel Johnsons liv. 1, 1709-1753 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including a Journal of a tour to the Hebrides Vol. 1 [1 of 3] 1 exemplar
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Volume 1 - 4 (v. 1-4) by Boswell James (1934-12-01) Hardcover (1600) 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. to Which Are Added, Anecdotes by Hawkins,… (2012) 1 exemplar
Selections from Boswell's Life of Johnson 1 exemplar
The life of Samuel Johnson. [Part 2] 1 exemplar
The life of Samuel Johnson. [Part 1] 1 exemplar
Samuel Johnsons liv. 4, 1776-1778 1 exemplar
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. New and complete edition, carefully revised from the most authentic sources. Edited,… (1873) 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson Vol.I 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson-abridged 1 exemplar
Samuel Johnsons liv. 3, 1769-1775 1 exemplar
Samuel Johnsons liv. 2, 1754-1768 1 exemplar
Johnson's table talk; a selection of his main topics and opinions taken from Boswell's Life and arranged by W.A. Lewis… (2010) 1 exemplar
The life of Samuel Johnson 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson 1 exemplar
Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson (4 Vols) (1969) 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D, Vol. 1 of 2: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Classic Reprint) (2016) 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Lohnson, LL.D. together with the Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides (8 volumes) 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson 1 exemplar
HThe Ilife of Samuel Johnson L.L.D. 1 exemplar
Les papiers de Boswell. amours à Londres 1762-1763. préface de andré maurois. texte français de madame blanchet. (1952) 1 exemplar
Journals 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson, 1709-1765 1 exemplar
Life of Samuel Johnson - 3 Volume Set 1 exemplar
Boswell's Life of Johnson, Edited by The Right Honorable John Wilson Croker in One Volume 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson Vol I 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D., Vol. II 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson (Volume 2) 1 exemplar
The Complete Works of James Boswell 1 exemplar
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (COMPLETE 4 VOLUME SET) Including a JOURNAL of HIS TOUR to the HEBRIDES NEW EDITION,… (1878) 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson - Vol IV and V [Mod Lib] 1 exemplar
The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo: Yale Boswell Editions Research Series:… (2022) 1 exemplar
Boswell"s Life of Johnson. 2 Volumes. 1 exemplar
Life Of Samuel Johnson LLD 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson - Vol. I & II 1 exemplar
Żywot doktora Samuela Johnsona 1 exemplar
BOSWELLS COLUMN 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson, edited with Notes By Arnold Glover of the Inner Temple- Three volumes 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson in 6 vols. (Vol. 2) 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Complete Three Volume Set (Great Books of the Western World Collection) (1983) 1 exemplar
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, VOL. II 1 exemplar
Piozzian rhimes 1 exemplar
Two new songs : Houses shut up, or Rowland in the dumps : Rowland deceived, a Carlisle song 1 exemplar
Life of Samuel Johnson: v. 5-6 1 exemplar
James Boswell's Life of Johnson. An edition of the original manuscript. Volume 1: 1709-1765 1 exemplar
Letters of James Boswell. Collected and Edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Volume One. (1924) — Autor — 1 exemplar
The private papers of Samuel Johnson 1 exemplar
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: An Abridgment; With Annotations by the Eminent Biographers and an… (2017) 1 exemplar
That Celebrated Letter - from The Life of Johnson - (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar
James Johnson 1 exemplar
I Mind My Belly Very Studiously - from The Life of Johnson - (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar
James Boswell in 2 Volumes (the Earlier Years 1740-1769, the later years 1769-1795, 2 volumes) (1984) 1 exemplar
Sufficiently Uncouth - from The Life of Johnson - (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar
Vita di Samuel Johnson Volume 1: 1709-1775 1 exemplar
The Scots magazine 1 exemplar
The Journal of James Boswell 1779-1781; David Boswell's Return to Scotland; Jaunt to London; Letters 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson, v. 3 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson in 6 vols. (Vol. 6) 1 exemplar
The Journal of James Boswell 1769; Love-Letters of James Boswell and Margaret Montgomerie 1 exemplar
The Life Of Samuel Johnson Vol. I! 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson in 6 vols. (Vol. 5) 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson in 6 vols. (Vol. 1) 1 exemplar
The life of Samuel Johnson. [Part 3] 1 exemplar
The Journal of James Boswell 1776-1777; His account of his last interview with David Hume 1 exemplar
Vita di Samuel Johnson Volume 2: 1776-1784 1 exemplar
James Boswell 3 Volume Set: Boswell in Holland, Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany & Switzerland; and Italy, Corsica… (1952) 1 exemplar
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON ... ABRIDGED AND NEWLY EDITED (LIBRARY OF STANDARD BIOGRAPHIES.) (1906) 1 exemplar
The Life of Johnson, Vol 4 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 1 of 3 1 exemplar
The Life of Samuel Johnson, vol. II 1 exemplar
The cub, at New-Market : a tale 1 exemplar
The life of Samuel Johnson,: Comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order; a… (1811) 1 exemplar
Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 1 1 exemplar
Heroic epistle to Joseph Priestley 1 exemplar
A collection of songs 1 exemplar
Life of Johnson, Volume II [The Life of Samuel Johnson, Or Boswell's Life of Doctor Johnson] (1927) 1 exemplar
Boswell's Life of Johnson 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 551 exemplares
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Contribuidor — 280 exemplares
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contribuidor — 214 exemplares
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Grolier Classics: Moby Dick/Life of Samuel Johnson/The Social Contract, The Odyssey (1955) 16 exemplares
Essay on Johnson, together with passages from Boswell's Johnson, and selections from Johnson's works; edited with a… (1924) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Piirakkasota : Valikoima huumoria — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Laird of Auchinleck
- Data de nascimento
- 1740-10-29
- Data de falecimento
- 1795-05-19
- Localização do túmulo
- Auchinleck Church, Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- Scotland, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
Auchinleck, Scotland, UK - Educação
- University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of Utrecht
Edinburgh High School - Ocupações
- lawyer
author
biographer
diarist - Relações
- Johnson, Samuel (friend)
Boswell, Alexander (son) - Organizações
- The Literary Club
Freemasons
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- James Boswell's fame and accomplishments are such that his name has become synonymous with a close friend and biographer. Although many of his great works and correspondence were lost to scholars for many years, they were fortunately discovered in the 1920s and later published.
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The life of Samuel Johnson por James Boswell
Long, entertaining and anecdotal.
Readable, engrossing, sometimes amusing - a classic read.
Fascinating, for several reasons: that Johnson is an extraordinary character, that London in the 1760s was an exciting place, that Boswell’s anecdotal voice is pleasurable to read - not least because of the cross-currents of ideas (current today) that were being tested as they flowed through and around what is quite an intimate relationship between the two men.
On the one hand, Boswell, when invited to dinner at Johnson’s house had low expectations:
Perhaps it’s that the anecdotes include so many notable encounters amidst the daily routines of eating and visiting that this ‘Life’ can't help but be consumed, not just as an intellectual journey but where tangible remnants in the physical world prompt other depths: I've been fortunate to have visited Dr Johnson's house in London at 17 Gough Square, my sister once gave me a William Hogarth illustration from [b:The Analysis of Beauty|23672505|The Analysis of Beauty (Dover Books of Fine Art)|William Hogarth|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1429097330l/23672505._SY75_.jpg|916332], and from my maternal grandfather, I have a complete 1805 set of The Plays of William Shakespeare which includes Dr Johnson's Preface.
I'll now exhume my memories of Gough Square, explore Hogarth's The Analysis of Beauty, and read Dr Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare. The danger is that I'll become obsessed with 18th Century London.… (mais)
On the one hand, Boswell, when invited to dinner at Johnson’s house had low expectations:
I supposed we scarcely have knives and forks…but the fact was we had very good soup, a boiled leg of lamb and spinach, a veal pie. and a rice pudding. (p.164)and on the other the pervasive influences of Rousseau (dismissed by Johnson as nonsense)
…the happiness of a savage life;…’Here I am free and unrestrained, amidst the rude magnificence of Nature, with this Indian woman by my side, and this gun with which I can procure food when I want it: what more can be desired for human happiness?’…Johnson. …gross absurdity. It is sad stuff; it is brutish…(p.166)Johnson has a tendency to make assertions with little foundation or evidence other than the weight of a turn of phrase or contrarian obstinance.
…he loved to display his ingenuity in argument; and therefore would sometimes in conversation maintain opinions which he was sensible were wrong, but in supporting which, his reasoning and wit would be most conspicuous. (p. 209)I found myself noting many passages. One I thought applied to me and I'll note is here for reference
'Sir, a man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing'. (p.288)
Perhaps it’s that the anecdotes include so many notable encounters amidst the daily routines of eating and visiting that this ‘Life’ can't help but be consumed, not just as an intellectual journey but where tangible remnants in the physical world prompt other depths: I've been fortunate to have visited Dr Johnson's house in London at 17 Gough Square, my sister once gave me a William Hogarth illustration from [b:The Analysis of Beauty|23672505|The Analysis of Beauty (Dover Books of Fine Art)|William Hogarth|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1429097330l/23672505._SY75_.jpg|916332], and from my maternal grandfather, I have a complete 1805 set of The Plays of William Shakespeare which includes Dr Johnson's Preface.
I'll now exhume my memories of Gough Square, explore Hogarth's The Analysis of Beauty, and read Dr Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare. The danger is that I'll become obsessed with 18th Century London.… (mais)
James Boswell was chiefly known asthe biographer of Samuel Johnson, and his journal of the rip to the Hebrides and life of Johnson were often reprinted in the noneteenth and early twentieth centuries. Boswell's other papers, including his masses of journals were consigned to the libraries of his descendants, who were a good deal less impressed by the memories of the private man, as oppposed to the monumental biographer. These respectable Prebyterians regarded James B, as a very poor specimen of humanity. Here the papers moldered until 1948, when the journals were gifted to Yale University in the USA. Frederick Pottle idly encuntered them in the catalogue, and read with increasing enthusiasm, the mass. It was the equivalent of Samuel Pepys' diary, so far as evoking the image and spirit and rhythmn of the 18th century British upper class. By 1950, the first volume chronicling Boswell's descent upon London, where he was trying to get himself a commission in the Guards' Regiments, allowing himself complete access to London literary and theatrical life, while enjoying a healthy allowance from his father, a pillar of the Scottish Bar. James B, inevitably clashed with that man, who much wished for his son to follow in his own respectable and financially remunerative footsteps. But, while Boswell was in London, he was in what he would have called the thick of the social whirl, in a bubbling of private culture. At this time, Boswell was writing everything down that he could remember before turning in for the night, and it creates a rich portrait of this cultural period. It reads extremely well, and Pottle provides a competent critical framework for appreciating the journal
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