Complete Poems of Samuel Johnson

Robert D. Brown is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College. His publications include Lucretius on Love and Sex: A Commentary on De Rerum Natura IV, 1030–1287, with Prolegomena, Text and Translation (Brill, 1987), Classical Literature and Its Reception: An Anthology (with Robert DeMaria, Jr.; Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) and Europe, c.1400–1458 by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (with Nancy Bisaha; The Catholic University of America Press, 2013).Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College. He is the author of three monographs on Samuel Johnson: Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning (Oxford, 1986); The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography (Blackwell, 1993) and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (Johns Hopkins, 1997). He is the general editor of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson; the co-editor of three volumes in that edition; and the editor of the Johnsonian News Letter.

‘The editors of the book are eminently qualified to carry out the task of curating Johnson’s poems. . . . This edition is special because it gives equal attention to Johnson’s English and his Latin and Greek poems, something never done before. . . . This impressive edition will long be definitive.’David Venturo - Johnsonian News Letter, Volume LXXVI, No.1, March 2025

• A Note from the General Editors Preface Acknowledgments AbbreviationsChronologyJohnson’s Poems Johnson’s Contributions to Poems by OthersPoems of Doubtful AuthorshipPoems Wrongly Attributed to JohnsonLost or Unidentified Poems by JohnsonAppendixWorks CitedIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines