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  • Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors

    Samuel Johnson by Womersley, David;

    21st-Century Oxford Authors

    Series: 21st-Century Oxford Authors;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 24 May 2018

    • ISBN 9780199609512
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages1344 pages
    • Size 223x148x56 mm
    • Weight 1522 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    A comprehensive selection of Samuel Johnson's most important writings, drawn from all periods of his life and reflecting almost completely the full range of literary forms in which he wrote.

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    Long description:

    The Samuel Johnson volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a generous selection of Johnson's most important writings, drawn from all periods of his life. It reflects almost completely the range of literary forms in which Johnson wrote. In keeping with the the approach of the series, the texts are presented in chronological order and the text chosen is, wherever possible, the text of the first published version. As well as an expansive introduction and a detailed chronology of Johnson's life, David Womersley provides helpful annotation to guide and orient the reader.

    The 1,300-page selection...under the editorship of the master scholar of the English 18th century David Womersley, is the most comprehensive volume now available.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Chronology
    Note on the Texts
    Part I: Early Poetry and Prose to 1750
    Translation of Horace, Odes, I.xxii (pre-1725)
    Translation of Horace, Epode, II (prob. 1726)
    Translation of Horace, Odes, II.xiv (prob. 1726)
    Translation of Horace, Odes, II.xx (prob. 1726)
    'Festina Lente' (prob. late 1726)
    'The Young Author' (1729)
    'Annals' (1734) - from birth to 1719
    Letter to Cave, 25 November, 1734
    'Preface' to Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia (1 February, 1735)
    Letter to Cave, 12 July, 1737
    London (12 May, 1738)
    'Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia' (June, 1738)
    'A Prayer on my Birth-Day' (7 September, 1738)
    'On Gay's Epitaph' (October, 1738)
    'Life of Boerhaave' (January, 1739)
    A Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage (May, 1739)
    'Prologue' to Lethe (April, 1740)
    'An Epitaph on Claudy Philips, a Musician' (September, 1740)
    'On Epitaphs' (December, 1740)
    Review of the Memoirs of the Duchess of Marlborough (March, 1742)
    Proposal for the Harleian Miscellany (November, 1742)
    Letter to Edward Cave, autumn 1743
    Life of Savage (11 February, 1744)
    Introduction to the Harleian Miscellany (April, 1744)
    'To Miss -, on her playing upon the harpsichord' (1746?)
    Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane (September, 1747)
    'The Vision of Theodore' (7 April, 1748)
    The Vanity of Human Wishes (9 January, 1749)
    'The Vanity of Wealth' (February, 1750)
    Part II: 'Dictionary' Johnson
    The Rambler (1750-1752): 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 39, 41, 45, 47, 49, 60, 63, 64, 70,71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 79, 85, 87, 90, 93, 101, 106, 108, 113, 114, 115, 121, 129, 134, 135, 137, 142, 146, 148, 151, 156, 158, 159, 161, 165, 167, 168, 170, 171, 176, 181, 183, 184, 188, 191, 196, 207, 208
    'Life of Cheynel' (July, 1751)
    Sermon . . . for the Funeral of his Wife (prob. March, 1752)
    'Prayers Composed on the Death of My Wife' (24 April-6 May 1752)
    The Adventurer (1752-1754): 39, 45, 50, 67, 69, 84, 85, 95, 99, 102, 107, 111, 119, 126, 137, 138
    Diary entries, 22, 23, and 29 April, 1753
    Letter to Thomas Warton, 16 July, 1754
    'Preface' to the Dictionary of the English Language (15 April, 1755)
    Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield, 7 February, 1755
    Letter to Bennet Langton, 6 May, 1755
    Letter to Miss Hill Boothby, 31 December, 1755
    Letter to Miss Hill Boothby, 8 January, 1756
    Letter to Samuel Richardson, 16 March, 1756
    'Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain' (15 May, 1756)
    Review of Warton, Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (15 May, 1756)
    Review of Blackwell, Memoirs of the Court of Augustus (15 May, 1756)
    'Observations on the Present State of Affairs' (15 August, 1756)
    Review of Hanway, An Essay on Tea (15 May, 1757)
    Review of Jenyns, Free Inquiry (15 May, 1757)
    'Of the Duty of a Journalist' (8 April, 1758)
    The Idler (8 April 1758-1760): 1, 5, 10, 17, [22], 22, 23, 27, 30, 31, 32, 36, 38, 40, 41, 44, 48, 49, 50, 51, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 65, 66, 72, 81, 84, 88, 94, 100, 103
    Letter to Sarah Johnson, 20 January, 1759
    Letter to William Strahan, 20 January, 1759
    Letter to Lucy Porter, 23 January, 1759
    Diary entry and prayer, 23 January, 1759
    Rasselas (26 June, 1759)
    'The Bravery of the English Common Soldiers' (January, 1760)
    Review of Tytler's Mary Queen of Scots (October, 1760)
    Part III: The Great Cham of Literature
    Letter to Baretti, 10 June, 1761
    Letter to Boswell, 8 December, 1763
    Diary entry, 21 April, 1764
    'A Reply to Impromptu Verses by Baretti' (1765?)
    Preface to The Plays of Shakespeare (10 October, 1765)
    Diary entry, 1 January, 1766
    'The Fountains' (1 April, 1766)
    Letter to Boswell, 9 September, 1769
    The False Alarm (16 January, 1770)
    Prayer on Easter Day, 31 March, 1771
    'Parodies of Percy's Hermit of Warkworth' (prob. summer 1771)
    '????? ???????' (12 December, 1772)
    Letter to Boswell, 24 February, 1773
    Diary entry, 22 July, 1773
    Diary entry, 25 July, 1774
    The Patriot (12 October, 1774)
    Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (18 January, 1775) - selection
    Letter to James Macpherson, 20 January, 1775
    Taxation No Tyranny (8 March, 1775)
    Diary entry, 14 April, 1775
    'To Mrs Thrale on her Thirty-Fifth Birthday' (presented 24 January, 1776)
    Diary entry for Easter Day, 7 April, 1776
    'Lines on Thomas Warton's Poems' (early 1777?)
    Diary entry, 28 March, 1777
    'Prologue' to Hugh Kelly's A Word to the Wise (29 May, 1777)
    Letter to William Dodd, 26 June, 1777
    Letter to Richard Farmer, 22 July, 1777
    'An Extempore Elegy' (1778?)
    'A Short Song of Congratulation' (August, 1780)
    Lives of the Poets (1781)
    Letter to Thomas Lawrence, 17 January, 1782
    Diary entry, 20 January, 1782
    Letter to Thomas Lawrence, 1 May, 1782
    Letter to Boswell, 7 September, 1782
    'On the Death of Dr Robert Levet' (August, 1783)
    Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, 2-8 July, 1784
    Letter to Lord Thurlow, 9 September, 1784
    Translation of Horace, Odes, IV.vii (November, 1784)
    Diary entry, 5 December, 1784
    Appendices
    Appendix A: Johnson's prayer on beginning The Rambler.
    Appendix B: Johnson's revisions to The Rambler, no. 1.
    Appendix C: Bonnell Thornton's parody of The Rambler.
    Notes
    Texts Arranged by Genre
    Index of Short Titles
    Index of First Lines
    Index of Persons
    Index of Subjects

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