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An Account Of Dr. Johnson's Dramatic Personal Life, Monumental Genius, And Boundless Literary Activities And Impact Follows Him From Poverty And Hack Work, Through Trial And Tumult , To Lionization As The Unchallenged Literary Arbiter Of His Times. Part I: The Formative Years -- Birth And Family; Early Illness -- First Years At School -- The Lichfield Upper Grammar School -- A Second Beginning: Cornelius Ford And The Year At Stourbridge -- Poems At Stourbridge -- Back At Lichfield; A Further Model; Gilbert Walmesley -- Oxford -- Part Ii: The Years Of Trial And Obscurity -- Breakdown And Despair; Psychology Of The Young Johnson -- Efforts To Begin Again; Birmingham; The First Book -- Johnson's Marriage; The School At Edial -- The Move To London; First Writings There; Temporary Separation From His Wife -- Range As A Journalist; Johnson's Politics Generally; Parliamentary Debates; Speed In Writing -- Lost In Grub Street; Biography And The World Of Books -- Part Iii: The Middle Of The Way: The Moral Pilgrimage -- Entrance Into Middle Age; Uncertainties; Problems In Marriage -- Storming The Main Gate; The Dictionary -- Personal Life; Tetty's Illness And Death; A Straggler -- The Moral Landscape; The Vanity Of Human Wishes And The Rambler -- The Condition Of Man: Johnson As Moralist -- Later Forties; Growing Difficulties; The Start On Shakespeare; Rasselas -- Into His Fifties; The Pension; Boswell; The Club -- Part Iv: The Johnson Legend -- Approaching Breakdown; Religious Struggles; Fear Of Insanity -- Shakespeare -- Toward Recovery; The Thrales; Law Lectures -- Early Sixties -- Writing; Continuing Religious Struggles -- Travel: The Hebrides; Wales -- Humor And Wit -- Indian Summer -- Lives Of The Poets -- Gathering Clouds; Death Of Henry Thrale -- Loss Of The Thrale Family; Failing Health -- Iam Moriturus. W. Jackson Bate. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 601-602.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureAuthors Show more