The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 11 Volume Set

Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-03182-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Medienkombination, Englisch, 5452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 355 mm x 485 mm, Gewicht: 8000 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

Dr Samuel Johnson (1709–84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works - commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity - was published in 1787 in eleven volumes by his literary executor, Sir John Hawkins, the musicologist. The volumes contain a range of material, from Hawkins' biography of Johnson, to poems, a play, famous essay collections such as The Rambler and The Idler, A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland and philological items concerning the Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare. The many biographies produced before and after his death have ensured Johnson's reputation, but even without these his own writings remain a landmark in eighteenth-century English literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Samuel

Hawkins, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Advertisement; The Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson; Index. Volume 2: The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Cowley; Denham; Milton; Butler; Rochester; Roscommon; Otway; Waller; Pomfret; Dorset; Stepney; J. Philips; Walsh; Dryden; Smith; Duke. Volume 3: The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, continued: King; Sprat; Halifax; Parnell; Garth; Rowe; Addison; Hughes; Sheffield; Buckinghamshire; Prior; Congreve; Blackmore; Fenton; Gay; Granville; Yalden; Tickell; Hammond; Somervile; Savage; Swift; Broome. Volume 4: The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets concluded: Pope; Pitt; Thomson; Watts; A. Philips; West; Collins; Dyer; Shenstone; Young; Mallet; Akenside; Gray; Lyttelton; Miscellaneous Lives: Father Paul Sarpi; Boerhaave; Blake; Sir Francis Drake; Barretier; Morin; Burman; Sydenham; Sheynel; Cave; King of Prussia; Browne; Ascham. Volume 5: The Rambler. Volume 6: Continuation of The Rambler. Volume 7: The Rambler, concluded. Volume 8: The Idler. Volume 9: The Adventurer; Philological Tracts: The plan of an English dictionary; Preface to the English Dictionary; Proposals for printing the dramatick works of William Shakespeare, printed in the year 1756; Preface to Shakespeare, published in the year 1768; General observations on the plays of Shakespeare; An account of the Harleian Library; An essay on the origin and importance of small tracts and fugitive pieces; Some account of a book called The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A view of the controversy between Mons. Crousaz and Mr. Warburton, on the subject of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man; Preliminary discourse to the London Chronicle, January 1, 1757; Introduction to the World Displayed; The preface to The Preceptor, containing a general plan of education; Preface to Rolt's Dictionary; Preface to the translation of Father Lobo's voyage to Abissinia; An essay on epitaphs. Volume 10: Political Tracts: The false alarm [1770]; Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands [1771]; The patriot, addressed to the electors of Great Britain [1774]; Taxation no tyranny, an answer to the resolutions and address of the American Congress [1775]; Political Essays: Observations on the state of affairs in 1756; An introduction to the political state of Great Britain, written in the year 1756; Miscellaneous Essays: Review of the Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, by Thomas Blackwell; Review of four letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Dr. Bentley, containing some arguments in proof of a deity; Review of a philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful; Review of a free enquiry into the nature and origin of evil; Review of 'A Journal of eight days journey, from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames.' by Mr. H****; Reply to a paper in the Gazetteer of May 26th, 1757; Introduction to the proceedings of the committee appointed to manage the contributions begun at London, December 18th, 1758, for cloathing French prisoners of war; On the bravery of the English common soldiers; Considerations on the plans offered for the construction of Black Friars Bridge, in three letters to the printer of the Gazetteer, 1759; Some thoughts on agriculture, both ancient and modern; Further thoughts on agriculture; A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Volume 11: Tales and Visions: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abisinnia; The Vision of Theodore, the hermit of Teneriffe, found in his cell; The Apotheosis of Milton, a vision; Prayers and devotional exercises; Apophthegms, sentiments, opinions, and occasional reflections; Irene, a tragedy; Poems: London; The Vanity of Human Wishes; Miscellaneous poems; Poemata; Index to the works.