Recent studies in the restoration and eighteenth century.

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information 
 
  BEGI'NNER. n.s.{...} 
  1. He that gives the first cause, or original, to any thing. 
  {...} Hook. 
  <3> An unexperienced 
  attempter; {...} 
  --Samuel Johnson, Dictionary (1755)

This definition of "beginner" is a transcription from Allen Red-dick's facsimile edition of Samuel Johnson's Unpublished Revisions to the "Dictionary of the English Language"--one of the treasures in my lap from this experience--and it rather neatly formats as well as defines what I expect is a fairly common experience of a first-time reviewer for SEL's "Recent Studies." In the attempt to "give the ...

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