Samuel Johnson goes abroad
Claude Rawson, 29 August 1991
A Voyage to Abyssinia
by Samuel Johnson, edited by Joel Gold.
Yale, 350 pp., £39.50, July 1985,0 300 03003 7 Show More
by Samuel Johnson, edited by Joel Gold.
Yale, 350 pp., £39.50, July 1985,
Rasselas, and Other Tales
by Samuel Johnson, edited by Gwin Kolb.
Yale, 290 pp., £24.50, March 1991,0 300 04451 8 Show More
by Samuel Johnson, edited by Gwin Kolb.
Yale, 290 pp., £24.50, March 1991,
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
by Samuel Johnson.
Longman, 1160 pp., £195, September 1990,0 582 07380 4 Show More
by Samuel Johnson.
Longman, 1160 pp., £195, September 1990,
The Making of Johnson’s Dictionary, 1746-1773
by Allen Reddick.
Cambridge, 249 pp., £30, October 1990,0 521 36160 5 Show More
by Allen Reddick.
Cambridge, 249 pp., £30, October 1990,
Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts
by Morris Brownell.
Oxford, 195 pp., £30, March 1989,0 19 812956 4 Show More
by Morris Brownell.
Oxford, 195 pp., £30, March 1989,
“... to stick to ascertainable facts. His book is nicely produced, with attractive illustrations. G.F. Parker’s Johnson’s Shakespeare is a fresh and vivid study of the Shakespeare criticism. Its first chapter is entitled ‘Taking Johnson seriously’, and the book is written with an intelligent fervour and a forthright sharpness which do just that. ... ”
