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A one'volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth'century Britain's pre'eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth'century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the YaleEdition.
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The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, the first complete editing of Johnson to appear since 1825, presents in this second volume the texts of the 104 numbers of the periodical essay The Idler, all but twelve of which were contributed by Johnson to The Universal Chronicle between 1758 and 1760, and the twenty-nine essays he contributed to The Adventurer in 1753 and 1754. Mr. Bate, chairman of the Department of English at Harvard University, has edited the Idler essays in collaboration with Mr. Bullitt, professor of English at Harvard, and the Adventurer essays in collaboration with Mr. Powell of Oxford University, reviser of the standard edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Each series of essays is provided with an introduction, variant readings, and explanatory notes.
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Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' is not only a narrative of personal experience, rare in the canon of his writings, but also a deeply reflective survey of the Highlands and Isles--their social and economic structure, their traditions and customs. Beyond this, Johnson undertakes a subtle, penetrating analysis of a people in the throes of change, and examines the predicament they face as a result.
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This first book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1735 when he was twenty-six, is of particular interest, for it contains indications of opinions and style that reached full flower in his later writings. Rasselas, especially, is closely related to the present work.It is a translation by Johnson of a French version of an unpublished Portuguese manuscript by Father Jeronimo Lobo, S.J., who spent the better part of ten years, from 1624 to 1634, as a missionary in the then little-known land of Abyssinia. The account of his perilous travels and unswerving faith is a moving narrative, as well as a valuable picture of an ancient society. The second half of the book, sixteen dissertations on aspects of Abyssinia and Abyssinian life, was written by Lobo's French translator, Joachim LeGrand.Forced by poverty to leave Oxford, and at loose ends in his native Lichfield, Johnson moved to Birmingham in late 1732 as the guest of his schoolmate Edmund Hector. Without employment, Johnson suggested to Hector and his friend Thomas Warren, a Birmingham bookseller, that an abridged translation of Lobo's Voyage (which he had read at Oxford) might be worthy of publication. Encouraged by Hector and Warren, he undertook the task.This is the first appearance of the whole book with full critical and textual apparatus.(A later edition, in 1789, is without scholarly significance.) The editor's introduction provides all the necessary background information, and the annotation often reveals the subtle ways Johnson's beliefs and cast of mind influenced his translation.; Translation of the French ed. of: Itineraario, which was itself a translation of the unpublished Portuguese manuscript.