Samuel Johnson by Boulton, James T. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES General Editor’s Preface Contents Preface Acknowledgments Note on the Text Introduction

CONTEMPORARY RESPONSE: A GENERAL REVIEW POSTHUMOUS RESPONSE JOHNSON’S RESPONSE TO HIS CRITICS EDITIONS AND SALES OF JOHNSON’S WORKS CRITICAL RESPONSE: AN ANALYSIS POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION NOTES

JOHNSON’S POEMS

1. Johnson seeking a publisher for London 2. William Mudford on London and The Vanity of Human Wishes 3. John Aikin on Johnson’s poems

IRENE

4. A Criticism on Mahomet and Irene. In a Letter to the Author 5. John Hippisley (?), An Essay on Tragedy, with a Critical Examen of Mahomet and Irene

THE RAMBLER

6. Two early tributes 7. Johnson surveys his purpose and achievement, Rambler No. 208 8. Arthur Murphy, Essay on the Life and Genius of Johnson 9. George Gleig in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 10. Mudford on the ‘moral utility’ of the Rambler 11. Alexander Chalmers in British Essayists 12. William Hazlitt on the Rambler

THE DICTIONARY

13. Johnson’s Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language 14. Foreign notice of the Plan 15. Chesterfield in the World 16. Johnson writes to Thomas Warton 17. Johnson’s letter to Chesterfield 18. Johnson’s Preface 19. Adam Smith, unsigned review Edinburgh Review 20. Horne Tooke’s Diversions of Purley

LEST.

21. A German view of the Dictionary 22. An American view of the Dictionary

RASSELAS

23. Owen Ruffhead, unsigned review, Monthly Review 24. Unsigned notice, Annual Register 25. William Mudford on Rasselas 26. Mrs Barbauld, The British Novelists

EDITION OF THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

27. Johnson’s Proposals for his edition of Shakespeare

CONDITIONS

28. From Johnson’s Preface to the first edition 29. George Colman, unsigned notice, St. James’s Chronicle 30. William Kenrick, unsigned review, Monthly Review 31. William Kenrick, Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare 32. James Barclay, Examination of Mr. Kenrick’s Review 33. Voltaire, ‘Art Dramatique’, in Questions sur l’Encyclopédie 34. Schlegel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature 35. Coleridge on Johnson’s Shakespeare 36. Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespear’s Plays

POLITICAL PAMPHLETS

37. Unsigned review of The False Alarm, Critical Review 38. Unsigned review of The False Alarm, Monthly Review

DECLAMATION ARGUMENT RIDICULE

39. Percival Stockdale, The Remonstrance 40. John Wilkes, A Letter to Samuel Johnson LL.D. 41. Joseph Towers, A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson 42. Tyranny Unmasked

JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND

43. Robert Fergusson, ‘To Dr. Samuel Johnson: Food for a new Edition of his Dictionary’ 44. Ralph Griffiths, unsigned review, Monthly Review 45. Anonymous, Remarks on a Voyage to the Hebrides, in a letter to Samuel Johnson LL.D. 46. James McIntyre, ‘On Samuel Johnson, who wrote against Scotland’ 47. Donald McNicol, Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides

LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS

48. Edward Dilly to James Boswell 49. Advertisement to the Lives 50. Edmund Cartwright, unsigned review, Monthly Review

MILTON.

51. Unsigned review, Critical Review 52. William Cowper’s opinions of the Lives 53. Francis Blackburne, Remarks on Johnson’s Life of Milton 54. Horace Walpole on the Life of Pope 55. William Fitzthomas, Cursory Examination of Dr. Johnson’s Strictures on the Lyric Performances of Gray 56. Unsigned review, Annual Register 57. Robert Potter, Inquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets 58. Sir John Hawkins, Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 59. Robert Potter, The Art of Criticism as exemplified in Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

LANSDOWNE,1 AS TO SHENSTONE, CONCLUSION.

60. Anna Seward’s opinions of the Lives 61. Thomas De Quincey, ‘Postscript respecting Johnson’s Life of Milton’

JOHNSON’S PROSE STYLE

62. Archibald Campbell, Lexiphanes, a Dialogue, Imitated from Lucian

ARGUMENT. LEXIPHANES.

63. Johnson defends his style 64. Horace Walpole, ‘General Criticism of Dr. Johnson’s Writings’ 65. Robert Burrowes, ‘Essay on the Stile of Doctor Samuel Johnson’, Nos. I and II 66. Anna Seward on Johnson’s prose style 67. Nathan Drake on the influence of Johnson’s style 68. Sir James Mackintosh, private journal 69. Coleridge’s opinions on Johnson’s style

BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENERAL

70. Charles Churchill, ‘Pomposo’ in The Ghost 71. John Wilkes, North Briton Nos. XI and XII 72. William Blake, ‘An Island in the Moon’ 73. John Courtenay, A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson LL.D. 74. Joseph Towers, An Essay on the Life, Character, and Writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson 75. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 76. Anna Seward’s general estimate of Johnson 77. George Mason, Epitaph on Johnson 78. Richard Cumberland, Memoirs 79. Sir Walter Scott, Lives of the Novelists 80. Macaulay, review of Croker’s edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Edinburgh Review 81. Thomas Carlyle, review of Croker’s edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Fraser’s Magazine

Bibliography Select Index

I II III IV

Footnotes

1. Johnson seeking a publisher for London 2. William Mudford on London and The Vanity of Human Wishes 4. A Criticism on Mahomet and Irene. In a Letter to the Author 5. John Hippisley (?), An Essay on Tragedy, with a Critical Examen of Mahomet and Irene 7. Johnson surveys his purpose and achievement, Rambler No. 208 8. Arthur Murphy, Essay on the Life and Genius of Johnson 9. George Gleig in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 10. Mudford on the ‘moral utility’ of the Rambler 11. Alexander Chalmers in British Essayists 12. William Hazlitt on the Rambler 13. Johnson’s Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language 16. Johnson writes to Thomas Warton 17. Johnson’s letter to Chesterfield 18. Johnson’s Preface 20. Horne Tooke’s Diversions of Purley 21. A German view of the Dictionary 22. An American view of the Dictionary 23. Owen Ruffhead, unsigned review, Monthly Review 26. Mrs Barbauld, The British Novelists 27. Johnson’s Proposals for his edition of Shakespeare 28. From Johnson’s Preface to the first edition 29. George Colman, unsigned notice, St. James’s Chronicle 30. William Kenrick, unsigned review, Monthly Review 31. William Kenrick, Review of Johnson’s Shakespeare 32. James Barclay, Examination of Mr. Kenrick’s Review 33. Voltaire, ‘Art Dramatique’, in Questions sur l’Encyclopédie 34. Schlegel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature 35. Coleridge on Johnson’s Shakespeare 36. Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespear’s Plays 37. Unsigned review of The False Alarm, Critical Review 38. Unsigned review of The False Alarm, Monthly Review 39. Percival Stockdale, The Remonstrance 40. John Wilkes, A Letter to Samuel Johnson LL.D. 41. Joseph Towers, A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson 42. Tyranny Unmasked 43. Robert Fergusson, ‘To Dr. Samuel Johnson: Food for a new Edition of his Dictionary’ 44. Ralph Griffiths, unsigned review, Monthly Review 45. Anonymous, Remarks on a Voyage to the Hebrides, in a letter to Samuel Johnson LL.D. 46. James McIntyre, ‘On Samuel Johnson, who wrote against Scotland’ 47. Donald McNicol, Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides 48. Edward Dilly to James Boswell 49. Advertisement to the Lives 50. Edmund Cartwright, unsigned review, Monthly Review 51. Unsigned review, Critical Review 52. William Cowper’s opinions of the Lives 53. Francis Blackburne, Remarks on Johnson’s Life of Milton 54. Horace Walpole on the Life of Pope 55. William Fitzthomas, Cursory Examination of Dr. Johnson’s Strictures on the Lyric Performances of Gray 57. Robert Potter, Inquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets 58. Sir John Hawkins, Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 59. Robert Potter, The Art of Criticism as exemplified in Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets 60. Anna Seward’s opinions of the Lives 61. Thomas De Quincey, ‘Postscript respecting Johnson’s Life of Milton’ 62. Archibald Campbell, Lexiphanes, a Dialogue, Imitated from Lucian 63. Johnson defends his style 65. Robert Burrowes, ‘Essay on the Stile of Doctor Samuel Johnson’, Nos. I and II 66. Anna Seward on Johnson’s prose style 67. Nathan Drake on the influence of Johnson’s style 69. Coleridge’s opinions on Johnson’s style 70. Charles Churchill, ‘Pomposo’ in The Ghost 71. John Wilkes, North Briton Nos. XI and XII 72. William Blake, ‘An Island in the Moon’ 73. John Courtenay, A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson LL.D. 74. Joseph Towers, An Essay on the Life, Character, and Writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson 75. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 76. Anna Seward’s general estimate of Johnson 78. Richard Cumberland, Memoirs 80. Macaulay, review of Croker’s edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Edinburgh Review 81. Thomas Carlyle, review of Croker’s edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Fraser’s Magazine

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