Samuel Johnson (eBook, ePUB)

The Critical Heritage
Redaktion: Boulton, James T.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 student and researcher to read the material themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134782499
• Artikelnr.: 38245902

Autorenporträt

James T. Boulton

Inhaltsangabe

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