This is a major new selection of Samuel Johnson's best work,
delightfully introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and scrupulously annotated
by Frank Brady and Mr. Wimsatt.
Samuel Johnson, the only writer in English since the Renaissance to
give his name to a literary period, was the center of English
letters in his time. He was Dictionary Johnson, the lexicographer
who had single-handedly settled the English language (it was hoped)
on a firm basis; he was the author of a handful of fine poems,
including two of the most remarkable satires of the century; he was
a moralist whose "Rambler" and "Idler" essays, and novel-of-ideas
"Rasselas," provided a searching view of men and matters. And in
his final years he produced his greatest work, that extraordinary
combination of biography and criticism which came to be known as
the "Lives of the Poets."
This first extensive anthology of Johnson's writings to be
published in many years emphasizes Johnson the writer. It responds
to those aspects of Johnson's work of special interest to modern
readers. It comprises a selection of Johnson's letters, all of his
major poems (including "London"), "Rasselas," twenty-one "Rambler,"
nineteen "Idlers," the Prefaces to the "Dictionary" and to the
edition of Shakespeare, and the following "Lives of the Poets: "
Cowley, Milton, Swift, Pope, Savage, Collins, and Gray.
All these works are extensively annotated and printed complete. Mr.
Wimsatt, one of the outstanding Johnsonians of this century,
provides in his Introduction a clear, connected biographical
account of Johnson, stressing his writings. An up-to-date
bibliography is also included. Johnson's varied accomplishments--as
poet, as moralist, asbiographer, as critic--are all amply
represented.
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