Author:Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

English poet, essayist, biographer, and lexicographer.

Samuel Johnson

Works

Biography, Criticism, Lexicography, Prose

• Life of Richard Savage
• A Dictionary of the English Language
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
• The Plays of William Shakespeare
• A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
• Prefaces, Biological and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets

Essays, Pamphlets, Periodicals

• Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language
• The Rambler
• The Idler
• The False Alarm
• The Patriot
• Taxation No Tyranny

Letters

• Letter to Lord Chesterfield

Poetry

• London
• Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane
• The Vanity of Human Wishes
• Irene, a Tragedy

Works about Johnson

• H. P. Lovecraft, A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Arthur Murphy, An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson (1792)
• “Johnson, Samuel” by Thomas Babington Macaulay  in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1881.
• Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Samuel Johnson (1894)
• “Johnson, Samuel (lexicographer),” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Johnson, Samuel (essayist)” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Johnson, Samuel” by Thomas Babington Macaulay in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (with footnote and afterword by Thomas Seccombe)
• “Johnson, Dr. Samuel,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Johnson, Samuel (man of letters)” by William P. Trent  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Johnson, Samuel,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

On his works

• “Lives of the Poets” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Rambler, The” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Rasselas” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Vanity of Human Wishes, The” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Transcription projects

• Johnsonian Miscellanies
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
  • Volume 2 - back matter
• Footsteps of Dr. Johnson
• A critical examination of Dr G Birkbeck Hills "Johnsonian" Editions

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.