Selected writings / Samuel Johnson ; edited by Peter Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Contributor:

Martin, Peter, 1940-

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2009

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Literary collections.

Johnson, Samuel.

Criticism--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. But 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-674-05407-5

OCLC:

648757476