Author:Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

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Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

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English poet, essayist, biographer, and lexicographer

Samuel Johnson

Works

Biography, Criticism, Lexicography, Prose

• Life of Richard Savage (1727) (external scan)
• A Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage from the malicious and scandalous aspersions of Mr. Brooke. By an Impartial Hand (1739) (anon.)
• A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), in 2 vols.
• The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
  • Preface
• A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) (external scan)
• The Works of the English Poets (1779)
• Biographical History of the English Poets
• Character of Swift's Writings (c. 1779-1781)
• The Modern Traveller (1776) external link
• The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1794 corrected edition) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Essays, Pamphlets, Periodicals

• A History and Defence of Magna Charta (1769) (transcription project)
• Marmor Norfolciense, Or, An Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription, in Monkish Rhyme (1775)
• An essay concerning parliaments at a certainty; or, The Kalends of May (1693)
• The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language (1747)
• The Rambler (1759) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4).
• The Idler (1767) - (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• Adventurer external link
• Political tracts (1776), containing:
  • The False Alarm
  • Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands
  • The Patriot
  • Taxation no Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress

Translations

• A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735), by Father Jerome Lobo.

Letters

• Letter to Lord Chesterfield

Poetry

• London (1738)
• Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane
• The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)
• Irene, a Tragedy (1749)

Works about Johnson

• Life of Johnson, by James Boswell
  • 1904 Edition
    • Volume 1 (transcription project)
    • Volume 2 (transcription project)
    • Volume 3 (transcription project)
    • Volume 4 (transcription project)
    • Volume 5 (transcription project)
    • Volume 6 (transcription project)

• A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson, by H. P. Lovecraft
• Samuel Johnson (1878), by Leslie Stephen
• An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson (1792), by Arthur Murphy,
• "Johnson, Samuel," by Thomas Babington Macaulay in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (13) (1881)
• "Johnsoniana in Studies of a Biographer (1898) by Leslie Stephen
• "Samuel Johnson" in Essays and Addresses (1907) by Richard Claverhouse Jebb
• Samuel Johnson: the Leslie Stephen lecture (1907), a lecture by Walter Alexander Raleigh
• "Johnson, Samuel (lexicographer)," in 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)
• Six Essays on Johnson, by Sir Walter Raleigh (1910)
• "Johnson, Samuel," by Thomas Babington Macaulay in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with footnote and afterword by Thomas Seccombe)
• "Johnson, Dr. Samuel," in 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: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Johnson, Samuel," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

On his works

• “Dr. Johnson’s ‘Lives of the Poets’,” in the Quarterly Review, 208 (1908)
• "Lives of the Poets," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Rambler, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Rasselas," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Vanity of Human Wishes, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (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