Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings: A Tercentenary Celebration

✍ Scribed by Samuel Johnson (editor); Peter Martin (editor)

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 531
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In Johnson’s own day he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works—allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns—are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Note on the Text
Introduction
Part 1. Periodical Essays (1750–1760)
Morality, Behavior, and Psychology
Society and Manners
Biography and Autobiography
Literature and Authorship
Death
Politics
Part II. Excerpts from the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Part III. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759)
Part IV. Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
Part V. Excerpts from Lives of the Poets
Cowley
Milton
Pope
Collins
Savage
Notes
Bibliography

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