02769nam 2200577 a 450 991081403040332120200520144314.00-674-05407-510.4159/9780674054073(CKB)2670000000040430(OCoLC)648757476(CaPaEBR)ebrary10402531(SSID)ssj0000427923(PQKBManifestationID)11320141(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427923(PQKBWorkID)10406087(PQKB)11091581(MiAaPQ)EBC3300867(DE-B1597)457670(OCoLC)979742735(DE-B1597)9780674054073(Au-PeEL)EBL3300867(CaPaEBR)ebr10402531(OCoLC)923116632(EXLCZ)99267000000004043020090323d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSelected writings /Samuel Johnson ; edited by Peter Martin1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press20091 online resource (532 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-03585-2 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part 1. Periodical Essays (1750-1760) -- Morality, Behavior, and Psychology -- Society and Manners -- Biography and Autobiography -- Literature and Authorship -- Death -- Politics -- Part II. Excerpts from the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) -- Part III. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759) -- Part IV. Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) -- Part V. Excerpts from Lives of the Poets -- Cowley -- Milton -- Pope -- Collins -- Savage -- Notes -- BibliographyThanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. But in Johnson's own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works - allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns - are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today. 828/.609HK 2411rvkJohnson Samuel1709-1784.325263Martin Peter1940-1647518MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814030403321Selected writings3995116UNINA