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SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709 - 1784)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Selected Writings.  Ed. Peter Martin.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009.
  • The Lives of the Poets.  Ed. G. B. Hill.  3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1905.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Life of Milton.  1779.
  • Preface to Shakespeare.  1765. 
    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch.  New York: Norton, 2001.  468-480.
    • The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.  224-238.
    • Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.
     3rd Ed. edited by Charles Kaplan and William Anderson, 1991.  220-255.
    • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  320-327.
  • The History of Rasselas.  1759. 
    • Chapter X.
      • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch.  New York: Norton, 2001.  466-467.
      • The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.  223-224.
      • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  319-320. 
  • "On Fiction."  Rambler 4 (March 31, 1750). 
    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch.  New York: Norton, 2001.  462-466.
    • The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.  220-223.
    • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  317-319. 
  • Preface to the Dictionary.  1747.

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Johnson E-Texts (Ed. Jack Lynch):

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Lives of Waller, Milton and Cowley:

    • Project Gutenberg Version

  • "Life of Pope" ():

    • Jack Lynch Version

  • "Life of Milton" (1779):

    • Jack Lynch Version

  • Preface to Shakespeare (1765):

    • Gutenberg Version

    • Jack Lynch Version

    • University of Toronto Version

  • The History of Rasselas (1759):

    • Bibliomania Version

    • Jack Lynch Version

  • Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755):

    • Gutenberg Version

    • Jack Lynch Version

  • Selections from The Rambler 1-54 (1750-1752):

    • University of Virginia Version:

      • "On Fiction."  Rambler 4 (March 31, 1750).

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Clingham, Greg, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson.  Cambridge: CUP, .

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bate, W. Jackson.  Samuel Johnson. 

  • Bronson, Bertrand.  "Johnson Agonistes." 

  • Brown, Ivor.  Dr. Johnson and his World. 

  • Harland, Richard.  "French Neoclassical Theory (Boileau, Bouhors, Rapin, [Pope, Johnson])."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  41-45.

  • Harland, Richard.  "The British Version of Neoclassicism (Jonson, Dryden, Johnson, Addison)."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  45-49.

  • Harland, Richard.  "British Theory in the Age of Sensibility (Johnson, Young, Joseph Warton, Hurd, Edmund Burke)."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  49-55.

  • Keast, W. R.  "The Theoretical Foundations of Johnson's Criticism." 

    • Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Ed. R. S. Crane.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  389-407. 

  • Martin, Peter.  Samuel Johnson: a Biography.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009.

  • Meyers, Jeffrey.  Samuel Johnson: the Struggle.  New York: Basic, 2009.

  • Nokes, David.  Samuel Johnson: a Life.  New York: Henry Holt, 2009.

  • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "The Neo-Classic Universal: Samuel Johnson."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  313-336.

On-Line:

• Rogers, Pat: Cheerfulness Breaks In New Criterion (June 2009)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Samuel Johnson

WWW GATEWAYS

• Lynch, Jack: Samuel Johnson

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