Samuel Johnson de James T. Boulton

Samuel Johnson: The Critical Heritage

James T. Boulton

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2014

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

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PREFACE INTRODUCTION Johnson’s Poems 1 JOHNSON seeking a publisher for London, 1738 2 WILLIAM MUDFORD on London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1802 3 JOHN AIKIN on Johnson’s poems, 1804 Irene (1749) 4 A Criticism on Mahomet and Irene, 1749 5 JOHN HIPPISLEY (?), An Essay on Tragedy, 1749 The Rambler (1750–2) 6 Two early tributes, 1750 7 JOHNSON surveys his purpose and achievement, Rambler, 1752 8 ARTHUR MURPHY, Essay on the Life and Genius of Johnson,1792 9 GEORGE GLEIG in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1797 10 MUDFORD on the ‘moral utility’ of the Rambler, 1802 11 ALEXANDER CHALMERS in British Essayists, 1802 12 HAZLITT on the Rambler, 1819 The Dictionary (1755) 13 JOHNSON’S Plan of a Dictionary, 1747 14 Foreign notice of the Plan, 1747 15 CHESTERFIELD in the World, 1754 16 JOHNSON writes to Thomas Warton, 1755 17 JOHNSON’S letter to Chesterfield, 1755 18 JOHNSON’S Preface, 1755 19 ADAM SMITH, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, 1755 20 HORNE TOOKE’S Diversions of Purley, 1786 21 A German view of the Dictionary, 1798 22 An American view of the Dictionary, 1807 Rasselas (1759)23 OWEN RUFFHEAD, unsigned review, Monthly Review, 1759 24 Unsigned notice, Annual Register, 1759 25 MUDFORD on Rasselas, 1802 26 MRS BARBAULD, The British Novelists, 1810 Edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) 27 JOHNSON’S Proposals for his edition of Shakespeare, 1756 28 From Johnson’s Preface to the first edition, 1765 29 GEORGE COLMAN, unsigned notice, St. James’s Chronicle,1765 30 WILLIAM KENRICK, unsigned review, Monthly Review, 1765 31 WILLIAM KENRICK, Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare, 1765 32 JAMES BARCLAY, Examination of Mr. Kenrick’s Review, 1766 33 VOLTAIRE, ‘Art Dramatique’, in Questions sur l’Encylopédie, 1770 34 SCHLEGEL, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, 1808 35 COLERIDGE on Johnson’s Shakespeare, 1811–16 36 HAZLITT, Characters of Shakespear’s Plays, 1817 Political Pamphlets (1770–5) 37 Unsigned review of The False Alarm, Critical Review, 1770 38 Unsigned review of The False Alarm, Monthly Review, 1770 39 PERCIVAL STOCKDALE, The Remonstrance, 1770 40 JOHN WILKES, A Letter to Samuel Johnson LL.D., 1770 41 JOSEPH TOWERS, A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1775 42 Anonymous, Tyranny Unmasked, 1775 Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) 43 ROBERT FERGUSSON, ‘To Dr. Samuel Johnson’, 1773 44 RALPH GRIFFITHS, unsigned review, Monthly Review, 1775 45 Anonymous, Remarks on a Voyage to the Hebrides, 1775 46 JAMES MCINTYRE, ‘On Samuel Johnson, who wrote against Scotland’, 1775 47 DONALD MCNICOL, Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnsons Journey to the Hebrides, 1779 Lives of the English Poets (1779–81) 48 EDWARD DILLY to James Boswell, 1777 49 Advertisement to the Lives, 1779 50 EDMUND CARTWRIGHT, unsigned review, Monthly Review, 1779–82 51 Unsigned review, Critical Review, 1779–81 52 WILLIAM COWPER’S opinions of the Lives, 1779–91 53 FRANCIS BLACKBURNE, Remarks on Johnson’s Life of Milton, 1780 54 WALPOLE on the Life of Pope, 1781 55 WILLIAM FITZTHOMAS, Dr. Johnson’s Strictures on the Lyric Performances of Gray, 1781 56 Unsigned review, Annual Register, 1782 57 ROBERT POTTER, Inquiry, 178358 SIR JOHN HAWKINS, Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D., 1787 59 ROBERT POTTER, The Art of Criticism, 1789 60 ANNA SEWARD’S opinions of the Lives, 1789–97 61 DEQUINCEY, ‘Postscript respecting Johnson’s Life of Milton’, 1859 Johnson’s Prose Style 62 ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Lexiphanes, 1767 63 JOHNSON defends his style, 1777 64 WALPOLE, ‘General Criticism of Dr. Johnson’s Writings’, c. 1779 65 ROBERT BURROWES, on ‘the Stile of Doctor Samuel Johnson’, 1786 66 ANNA SEWARD on Johnson’s prose style, 1795 67 NATHAN DRAKE on the influence of Johnson’s style, 1809 68 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH, private journal, 1811 69 COLERIDGE’S opinions on Johnson’s style, 1818–33 Biographical and General 70 CHARLES CHURCHILL, ‘Pomposo’ in The Ghost, 1762 71 JOHN WILKES, North Briton, 1762 72 BLAKE, ‘An Island in the Moon’, c. 1784 73 JOHN COURTENAY, A Poetical Review, 1786 74 JOSEPH TOWERS, An Essay, 1786 75 BOSWELL, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D., 1791 76 ANNA SEWARD’S general estimate of Johnson, 1796 77 GEORGE MASON, Epitaph on Johnson, 1796 78 RICHARD CUMBERLAND, Memoirs, 1807 79 SCOTT, Lives of the Novelists, 1821–4 80 MACAULAY, review of Croker’s edition of Boswell’s Life, Edinburgh Review, 1831 81 CARLYLE, review of Croker’s edition of Boswell’s Life, Fraser’s Magazine, 1832 BIBLIOGRAPHY SELECT INDEX