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内容简介:
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.
作者简介:
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.
原文摘录:
约翰逊曾说：“我坐下来一口气写完480页，然后一夜失眠。” (查看原文)
Adiyat
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2021-05-15 17:32:35
然而实情却是，他做一名基础学科教师，给智力低下的人合理分级指导他们学习还不太胜任。他自己的学养都是心血来潮时断时续刨来的，都是贸然闯进知识领域掠取的；所以不能指望他的急躁变缓，他的鲁莽会收敛，使他适合给初学者当一名心平气和的向导。相互沟通循循善诱的艺术，无论是哪一类都应受到重视；我一直认为那些献身于这项工作的人，勤勤恳恳、尽职尽责获得成功的，都值得社会高度敬重，约翰生本人也常持这种观点。然而我的看法是最大的才能不仅用不着干这种工作，而且使一个人变得不太适合干它。
汤姆逊说得极美：
令人快乐的工作！培育稚嫩的思想，
并教会年轻人的观念怎样迅速成长！
尽管我们承认他言之有理，但我们必须考虑这种快乐只有“一颗自在的心”，一颗既平静又明白的心，才能感受得到；然而像约翰生那样阴郁急躁的心是不可能长时间专注琐细事务的，而且肯定屡屡被学生进步中难免的迟缓和错误惹得烦乱透顶，以至于尽职尽责对教师鲜有快乐，对学生无大裨益。好脾气是做一名老师最基本的要求。贺拉斯把这种性格描绘为“和蔼的”：
如同老师有时给小孩糕点哄他们认字一般。 (查看原文)
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2023-05-13 16:40:38
—— 引自第64页