Samuel Johnson

Selected Writings
Herausgegeben von Womersley, David

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• 21st-Century Oxford Authors
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1344
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 56mm
• Gewicht: 1542g
• ISBN-13: 9780199609512
• ISBN-10: 0199609519
• Artikelnr.: 42362268

Autorenporträt

David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of St. Catherine's College.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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
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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