Author:Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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English poet, essayist, biographer, and lexicographer |
Works[edit]
Biography, Criticism, Lexicography, Prose[edit]
- 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)
- 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[edit]
- 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:
Translations[edit]
- A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735), by Father Jerome Lobo.
Letters[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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 (9th ed., 1881).
- "Johnsoniana in Studies of a Biographer (1898) by Leslie Stephen
- "Samuel Johnson" in Essays and Addresses (1907) by Richard Claverhouse Jebb
- "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[edit]
- “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[edit]
- Johnsonian Miscellanies
- Footsteps of Dr. Johnson
- A critical examination of Dr G Birkbeck Hills "Johnsonian" Editions

Works by this author published before January 1, 1926 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.