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Criticism and interpretation, Literary collections, Collected works (single author, multi-form), Johnson, samuel, 1709-1784, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century
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"One reason why Samuel Johnson, more that any other major figure of English literature, is better known as a 'personality' than as the great writer he was has been the difficulty of access to the large and varied canon of his writings."

Table of Contents

Introduction. Page xi
Acknowledgements. Page xxvi
Chronology. Page xxix
Note on the Text. Page xxxi
POETRY.
Translation of Horace, Odes, ii. 20 (1726) Page 1
London (1738) Page 2
Prologue to Garrick's Lethe (1740) Page 8
Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician (1740) Page 9
On Colley Cibber (1741?) Page 9
To Miss ——— On Her Playing Upon the Harpsichord (1746) Page 9
Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane (1747) Page 10
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) Page 12
Irene (Act II, Scene vii) (1749) Page 21
Prologue to Milton's Comus (1750) Page 24
Verses for Baretti (1750s?) Page 25
Parodies of Modern Ballad Imitations (1770s?) Page 25
Impromptu Translation of Benserade's 'Verses à son lit' (1770s?) Page 26
Epitaph on Hogarth (1771) Page 26
ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ (Know Thyself) (1772) Page 26
Skia (Skye) (1773) Page 30
To Mrs Thrale on Her Completing Her Thirty-Fifth Year (1776) Page 31
Lines in Hawkesworth's The Rival (1776?) Page 32
On Archaism in Poetry (1777) Page 32
Parody of Thomas Warton (1777) Page 32
Prologue to Kelly's A Word to the Wise (1777) Page 33
An Extempore Elegy (1777) Page 33
To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age (1780) Page 34
On the Death of Dr Robert Levet (1783) Page 35
In Rivum a Mola Stoana Lichfeldiae Diffluentem (By the River, at Stowe Mill, Lichfield) (1784) Page 36
Translation of Horace, Odes, iv. 7 (1784) Page 37
EARLY PROSE.
A Latin School Exercise (1725?) Page 39
Preface to Lobo, A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735) Page 41
The State of Affairs in Lilliput (1738) Page 44
On Gay's Epitaph (1738) Page 51
The Life of Dr Herman Boerhaave (1739) Page 54
A Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage (1739) Page 71
Annotation to Crousaz, Commentary on Pope's Essay on Man (1739) Page 84
An Essay on Epitaphs (1740) Page 96
Debates in the Senate of Lilliput (1741) Page 103
Review of Memoirs of the Duchess Dowager of Marlborough (1742) Page 113
An Account of Harleian Library (1743) Page 117
Proposals for the Harleian Miscellany (1743) Page 120
Introduction to the Harleian Miscellany (On the Origin and Importance of Small Tracts and Fugitive Pieces) (1744) Page 122
The Life of Richard Savage (1744) Page 128
The Vision of Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe (1748) Page 165
PERIODICAL ESSAYS.
The Rambler, no. 4 [The New Realistic Novel] (1750) Page 175
The Rambler, no. 18 [Marriage (1)] (1750) Page 179
The Rambler, no. 23 [The Rambler and His Critics] (1750) Page 183
The Rambler, no. 32 [Stoicism] (1750) Page 186
The Rambler, no. 36 [Pastoral Poetry (1)] (1750) Page 190
The Rambler, no. 37 [Pastoral Poetry (2)] (1750) Page 193
The Rambler, no. 39 [Marriage (2)] (1750) Page 197
The Rambler, no. 47 [Sorrow] (1750) Page 200
The Rambler, no. 60 [Biography] (1750) Page 204
The Rambler, no. 113 [Marriage (3)] (1751) Page 207
The Rambler, no. 114 [Capital Punishment] (1751) Page 211
The Rambler, no. 121 [Literary Imitation] (1751) Page 215
The Rambler, no. 129 [The Need for Enterprise] (1751) Page 219
The Rambler, no. 137 [The Need for General Knowledge] (1751) Page 222
The Rambler, no. 142 [A Rural Tyrant] (1751) Page 225
The Rambler, no. 145 [Journalists] Page 229
The Rambler, no. 148 [Parental Tyranny] (1751) Page 232
The Rambler, no. 156 ['Rules' of Writing] (1751) Page 235
The Rambler, no. 161 [A Rooming-House Chronicle] (1751) Page 239
The Rambler, no. 167 [Marriage (4)] (1751) Page 243
The Rambler, no. 168 [Congruent Diction] (1751) Page 246
The Rambler, no. 170 [A Prostitute's Story (1)] (1751) Page 249
The Rambler, no. 171 [A Prostitute's Story (2)] (1751) Page 253
The Rambler, no. 191 [An Astute Young Lady] (1752) Page 257
The Adventurer, no. 67 [The Benefits of Human Society] (1753) Page 261
The Adventurer, no. 84 [Vanity in a Stage Coach] (1753) Page 265
The Adventurer, no. 85 [The Role of the Scholar] (1753) Page 269
The Adventurer, no. 99 ['Projectors', Successful and Unsuccessful] (1753) Page 273
The Idler, no. 5 [A Female Army] (1758) Page 277
The Idler, no. 10 [Political Partisanship] (1758) Page 279
The Idler, no. 22 (original numbering) [The Vultures' View of Man] (1758) Page 282
The Idler, no. 22 (revised numbering) [23] [Debtors' Prisons (1)] (1758) Page 285
The Idler, no. 38 [39] [Debtors' Prisons (2)] (1759) Page 287
The Idler, no. 60 [61] [How to Become a Critic (1)] (1759) Page 290
The Idler, no. 61 [62] [How to Become a Critic (2)] (1759) Page 293
The Idler, no. 81 [82] [European Oppression in America] (1759) Page 296
The Idler, no. 84 [85] [Autobiography] (1759) Page 298
The Idler, no. 88 [89] [Limitations of Human Achievement] (1759) Page 300
The Idler, no. 100 [101] [A Good Sort of Woman] (1760) Page 302
The Idler, no. 103 [104] ['This Is the Last'] (1760) Page 304
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1755).
Preface Page 307
Specimen Entries Page 329
THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS (1759).
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Page 335
THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1765).
Preface Page 419
Specimen of Annotation Page 457
Concluding Notes Page 462
LATER PROSE.
Sermon 5 (date?) Page 467
The Life of Dr Francis Cheynel (1751) Page 476
Review of Joseph Warton, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (1756) Page 488
Review of Thomas Blackwell, Memoirs of the Court of Augustus (1756) Page 495
Observations on the Present State of Affairs (1756) Page 501
Review of [Jonas Hanway], A Journal of Eight Days' Journey . . . and An Essay on Tea (1757) Page 509
Reply to a Paper in the Gazetter of May 26, 1757 Page 517
Review of [Soame Jenys], A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1757) Page 522
Of the Duty of a Journalist (1758) Page 544
Introduction to Proceedings of the Committee . . . for Clothing French Prisoners of War (1759) Page 547
The Bravery of English Common Soldiers (1760) Page 549
Review of [William Tytler], An Historical and Critical Enquiry into . . . Mary, Queen of Scots (1760) Page 551
The Fountains: A Fairy Tale (1776) Page 558
Robert Chambers's Vinerian Lectures on the English Law: Part II, Lecture I Of Criminal Law . . . and the Nature of Punishments (1767) Page 570
The Patriot. Addressed to the Electors of Great Britain (1774) Page 580
Preface to Thomas Maurice, Poems . . . with a Free Translation of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles (1779) Page 588
Dedication of Charles Burney, An Account . . . in Commemoration of Handel (1784) Page 591
A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND (1775).
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Page 593
PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, TO THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
Addison (1781) Page 643
Cowley (1779) Page 677
Milton (1779) Page 698
Dryden (1779) Page 717
Pope (1781) Page 725
Thomson (1781) Page 753
Watts (1781) Page 755
Collins (1781) Page 759
Young (1781) Page 762
Gray (1781) Page 765
DIARIES AND LETTERS.
Selections Page 771
Notes. Page 793
Further Reading. Page 833
Indexes.
Poetry: Titles and First Lines Page 837
Prose Page 838
Recipients of Letters Page 840

Edition Notes

First published, with revisions, as an Oxford world's classics paperback: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [793]-832) and indexes.

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Oxford World's Classics
Copyright Date
1984

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828.609
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PR3522 .G69 2008, PR3520.G73 2008

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Donald Greene
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Donald Greene

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xxxii, 840p.
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