Dodsley, Robert | Harry M. Solomon (essay date 1996)
Harry M. Solomon (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Solomon, Harry M. “Apology: ‘Dodsley's life should be written,’” and “Creating Canons: 1741-1748.” In The Rise of Robert Dodsley: Creating the New Age of Print, pp. 1-6; 88-117. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.
[In the first essay which follows, Solomon argues that a new biography of Dodsley is warranted, one that does not treat the publisher as a secondary literary figure to the authors he published. In the second, Solomon recounts Dodsley's many literary achievements as a poet, dramatist, journalist, editor, bookseller, and patron of the arts.]
APOLOGY: “DODSLEY’S LIFE SHOULD BE WRITTEN”
James Boswell reports of his and Samuel Johnson's visit in March 1776 with Thomas Warton, in Warton's chambers in Trinity College, Oxford: “I said Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should be written, as he had been so much connected with the wits of his time, and by his...
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