The Uses of Johnson's Criticism
- ISBN-10
- 0813906253
- ISBN-13
- 9780813906256
- Category
- Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1976
- Publisher
- University Press of Virginia
- Author
- Leopold Damrosch
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