Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

  • Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
    By Samuel Johnson

    Volume I Samuel Johnson Roger Lonsdale. literature reveals general 'nature' through its reXection of 'sublunary nature', i.e. the way the world 'really' is, and thus communicates with the 'natural' feelings of the reader.

  • Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets: Volume III
    By Roger Lonsdale

    This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume three of four.

  • Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets: Volume II
    By Roger Lonsdale

    This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume two of four.

  • Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets: Volume I
    By Roger Lonsdale

    This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume one of four.

  • Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
    By Samuel Johnson

    When Goldsmith spoke 'slightingly' of M on 29 Apr. 1773, SJ stated that he 'had talents enough to keep his literary reputation alive as long as he lived; and that, let me tell you, is a good deal'. Goldsmith believed that in fact M's ...

  • Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets: Volume III
    By Samuel Johnson

    This is the first scholarly edition since 1905 and includes a full introduction and critical apparatus. This is volume three of four.

  • Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
    By Roger Lonsdale

    This is the first scholarly edition since 1905 and includes a full introduction and critical apparatus. This is volume two of four.