Samuel Johnson: The Critical Heritage

by Boulton,James T.

• ISBN13: 9780415134354
• ISBN10: 0415134358
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	p. v
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Note on the Text	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Johnson Seeking a Publisher for London	p. 42
Johnson's Poems	p. 42
William Mudford on London and the Vanity of Human Wishes	p. 44
John Aikin on Johnson's Poems	p. 49
Irene	p. 52
A Criticism on Mahomet and Irene. in a Letter to the Author	p. 52
John Hippisley (?), an Essay on Tragedy, with a Critical Examen of Mahomet and Irene	p. 57
The Rambler	p. 63
Two Early Tributes	p. 63
Johnson Surveys His Purpose and Achievement, Rambler No. 208	p. 64
Arthur Murphy, Essay on the Life and Genius of Johnson	p. 68
George Gleig in the Encyclopaedia Britannica	p. 72
Mudford on the 'Moral Utility' of the Rambler	p. 74
Alexander Chalmers in British Essayists	p. 81
William Hazlitt on the Rambler	p. 86
Johnson's Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language	p. 90
The Dictionary	p. 90
Foreign Notice of the Plan	p. 94
Chesterfield in the World	p. 95
Johnson Writes to Thomas Warton	p. 102
Johnson's Letter to Chesterfield	p. 103
Johnson's Preface	p. 105
Unsigned Review Edinburgh Review	p. 115
Horne Tooke's Diversions of Purley	p. 117
A German View of the Dictionary	p. 118
An American View of the Dictionary	p. 125
Rasselas	p. 141
Unsigned Review, Monthly Review	p. 141
Unsigned Notice, Annual Register	p. 147
William Mudford on Rasselas	p. 148
Mrs Barbauld, the British Novelists	p. 149
Johnson's Proposals for His Edition of Shakespeare	p. 155
Edition of the Plays of William Shakespeare	p. 155
From Johnson's Preface to the First Edition	p. 157
Unsigned Notice, St. James's Chronicle	p. 162
Unsigned Review, Monthly Review	p. 164
Review of Johnson's Shakespeare	p. 181
Examination of Mr. Kenrick's Review	p. 189
Voltaire, 'Art Dramatique', in Questions Sur L'encyclopédie	p. 194
Schlegel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature	p. 195
Coleridge on Johnson's Shakespeare	p. 197
Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespear's Plays	p. 199
Political Pamphlets	p. 204
Unsigned Review of the False Alarm, Critical Review	p. 204
Unsigned Review of the False Alarm, Monthly Review	p. 207
Percival Stockdale, the Remonstrance	p. 209
John Wilkes, a Letter to Samuel Johnson Ll. D	p. 211
Joseph Towers, a Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson	p. 216
Tyranny Unmasked	p. 225
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	p. 231
Robert Fergusson, ' to Dr. Samuel Johnson: Food for a New Edition of His Dictionary'	p. 231
Unsigned Review, Monthly Review	p. 234
Anonymous, Remarks on a Voyage to the Hebrides, in a Letter to Samuel Johnson Ll. D	p. 237
'On Samuel Johnson, Who Wrote Against Scotland'	p. 240
Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides	p. 242
Lives of the English Poets	p. 250
Edward Dilly to James Boswell	p. 250
Advertisement to the Lives	p. 252
Edmund Cartwright, Unsigned Review, Monthly Review	p. 253
Unsigned Review, Critical Review	p. 270
William Cowper's Opinions of the Lives	p. 273
Francis Blackburne, Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton	p. 278
Horace Walpole on the Life of Pope	p. 284
Cursory Examination of Dr. Johnson's Strictures on the Lyric Performances of Gray	p. 285
Unsigned Review, Annual Register	p. 293
Inquiry into Some Passages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets	p. 295
Life of Samuel Johnson Ll. D	p. 303
Robert Potter, the Art of Criticism as Exemplified in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets	p. 306
Anna Seward's Opinions of the Lives	p. 311
Thomas De Quincey, 'Postscript Respecting Johnson's Life of Milton'	p. 313
Johnson's Prose Style	p. 317
Lexiphanes, a Dialogue, Imitated from Lucian	p. 317
Johnson Defends His Style	p. 323
'General Criticism of Dr. Johnson's Writings'	p. 324
'Essay on the Stile of Doctor Samuel Johnson', Nos. I and II	p. 326
Anna Seward on Johnson's Prose Style	p. 343
Nathan Drake on the Influence of Johnson's Style	p. 344
Private Journal	p. 349
Coleridge's Opinions on Johnson's Style	p. 355
Biographical and General	p. 357
'Pomposo' in the Ghost	p. 357
North Briton Nos. XI and XII	p. 360
'An Island in the Moon'	p. 363
John Courtenay, a Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the Late Samuel Johnson Ll. D	p. 364
Joseph Towers, an Essay on the Life, Character, and Writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson	p. 371
James Boswell, the Life of Samuel Johnson Ll. D	p. 383
Anna Seward's General Estimate of Johnson	p. 412
Epitaph on Johnson	p. 415
Memoirs	p. 416
Lives of the Novelists	p. 420
Macaulay, Review of Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, Edinburgh Review	p. 423
Review of Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, Fraser's Magazine	p. 432
Bibliography	p. 449
Select Index	p. 451
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