Johnson’s Business
Keith Walker, 7 August 1980
A Dictionary of the English Language
by Samuel Johnson.
Times, 2558 pp., £45, June 1980,0 7230 0228 2 Show More
by Samuel Johnson.
Times, 2558 pp., £45, June 1980,
Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson’s Middle Years
by James Clifford.
Heinemann, 372 pp., £10, February 1980,0 434 13805 3 Show More
by James Clifford.
Heinemann, 372 pp., £10, February 1980,
“... Arcadia. Shakespeare complete. Raleigh’s History of the World. Bacon complete. The Bible. Sir Thomas Browne complete. Milton, including the prose works. Cowley, Waller and Denham. Dryden, including the prose works and the translations. Samuel Butler complete. Pope complete, including the Iliad and the Odyssey. Addison complete. Steele complete. Swift ... ”