Author: Maner, Martin
Title: The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets'
Description: Athens [Georgia], University of Georgia Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, vii,187 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The 'Doubtfulness' of Johnson's 'Lives'; Johnson, Scepticism & Biography; Satire & Sympathy in the 'Life of Savage'; Johnson's Redaction of Hawkesworth's 'Swift'; The Probable & the Marvelous in the 'Life of Milton'; Judgement & the Art of Contrast in the 'Life of Pope'; Conclusion.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Samuel Johnson, English Poets, Philosophy, Biography, Literature, , ,