Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) A Calendar of His Career Bibliographicacl Note Letters Poems The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Selections from The Rambler Selections from The Idler Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare Lives of the Poets

About the Author

Frank Brady is Professor of English at the City University of New York; the late W. K. Wimsatt was Sterling Professor of English at Yale. Both editors have worked on the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell and are, by virtue of their extensive publication on Boswell and Johnson, among the leadign scholars of this period.