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Tomarken, Edward

Edward L. Tomarken is Professor Emeritus at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK. He has written ten books, one on the sublime, two on Shakespeare, a trilogy on literary theory in films and television, and four studies of Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets</a>

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

This book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the  Lives of the Poets  speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic of Chapter One, “Why Genre”.

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets</a>

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic of Chapter One, “Why Genre”.