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

• A description of the Western Islands of Scotland with Martin Martin and James Boswell (1703)external link
• Life of Richard Savage (1727) external link
• A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) - Volume I (transcription project); Volume II (transcription project)
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia to be migrated vol 1, vol 2
• The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
  • Preface
• A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland external link
• 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 project: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 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)
• Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language
• The Rambler (1759) Vols. (I), (II), (III), and (IV).
• The Idler (1767)- Volume I (start transcription) - Volume II (start transcription)
• Adventurer external link
• Political tracts, 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

Letters

• Letter to Lord Chesterfield

Poetry

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

Works about Johnson

• James Boswell, Life of 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).
• "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)
• "Johnsoniana in Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen

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