Samuel Johnson : selected works / edited by Robert DeMaria, Jr., Stephen Fix, Howard D. Weinbrot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Samuel, Author.

Contributor:

DeMaria, Robert, Jr., editor.

Fix, Stephen, editor.

Weinbrot, Howard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (856 p.)

Edition:

The Yale Edition

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Yale University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Biographical Sketch

Chronology

Short Titles and Abbreviations

Suggestions for Further Reading

A Note on the Text

Acknowledgments

Periodical Essays

Beginnings and Endings

The Conduct of Life: Passions and Habits

The Conduct of Life: Moral Choices

Literature, Learning, and Authorship

Marriage, Men, and Women

Critical Theory and Practice

War and Imperialism

Fiction

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

The Fountains: A Fairy Tale

Poetry

London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal

To Miss ____ On her Playing upon the Harpsichord

An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, A Musician

Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747

The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated

A Short Song of Congratulation

On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet

Writings on Law and Society

Rambler, No. 114, Capital punishment

Rambler, Nos. 170 and 171, On prostitution

From Boswell’s Life of Johnson, A legal brief against slavery

Political Writings

From An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain (1756)

Observations on the Present State of Affairs (1756)

The Bravery of the English Common Soldiers (1760)

Introduction to Proceedings of the Committee on French Prisoners (1760)

The Patriot (1774)

Religious Writings

Sermon 1 (On Marriage)

Sermon 25 (On the Death of Elizabeth Johnson)

From A Review of Soame Jenyns’s A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1757)

Prayers and Meditations

A Dictionary of the English Language

To Lord Chesterfield, 7 February 1755

The Plan of A Dictionary of the English Language (1747)

Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

Know Thyself

Shakespeare Criticism

The Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)

Endnotes to Selected Plays

From A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

[ Johnson’s Introduction]

St. Andrews

Aberbrothic

Anoch

Ostig in Sky

Inch Kenneth

Life of Savage

Life of Cowley

Life of Milton

Life of Pope

Life of Gray

Index

Words Glossed with Definitions from Johnson’s Dictionary

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25800-3

OCLC:

1229161748