{"product_id":"9781108031738","title":"The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. : Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDr Samuel Johnson (1709–84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works - commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity - was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 3 contains the second part of his Lives of the Poets, his last major work. This was a commission to provide short accounts of over fifty poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and it set a new standard for English literary biography. Although not all of the subjects have been regarded as eminent by posterity, and Johnson was criticised for brusque treatment of well-connected courtier poets now largely forgotten, the work was a great success.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48726766846187,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":100.71,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781108031738-1.jpg?v=1781655213","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781108031738","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}