Author:Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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Samuel Johnson
Works
Biography, Criticism, Lexicography, Prose
- Life of Richard Savage (1727)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735), by Father Jerome Lobo
Letters
Poetry
- London (1738)
- Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane
- The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)
- Irene, a Tragedy (1749)
- The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson (1805) (transcription project)
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)
- 1904 Edition
- 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 (v. 13) (1881)
- "Johnsoniana" in Studies of a Biographer (1898) by Leslie Stephen
- "Johnson, Samuel (2)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
- "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
- Footsteps of Dr. Johnson
- A critical examination of Dr G Birkbeck Hills "Johnsonian" Editions
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and 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.
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