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,
“... stacks the cards in a way that is either irrelevant or falsifying. The splendid new edition by Gwin Kolb mislcadingly glosses ‘familiar’ from Johnson’s Dictionary as ‘unceremonious, free, as among persons long acquainted’, but Rasselas must mean a disquisition about ‘familiar’ (Dictionary, 6: ‘common; frequent’) matters, in which ... ”
