Samuel Johnson: The Critical Heritage [Paperback]

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.PREFACE INTRODUCTION Johnsons Poems 1 JOHNSON seeking a publisher for London, 1738 2 WILLIAM MUDFORD on London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1802 3 JOHN AIKIN on Johnsons poems, 1804 Irene (1749) 4 A Criticism on Mahomet and Irene, 1749 5 JOHN HIPPISLEY (?), An Essay on Tragedy, 1749 The Rambler (17502) 6 Two early tributes, 1750 7 JOHNSON surveys his purpose and achievement, Rambler, 1752 8 ARTHUR MURPHY, Essay on the Life and Genius of Johnson,1792 9 GEORGE GLEIG in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1797 10 MUDFORD on the moral utility of the Rambler, 1802 11 ALEXANDER CHALMERS in British Essayists, 1802 12 HAZLITT on the Rambler, 1819 The Dictionary (1755) 13 JOHNSONS Plan of a Dictionary, 1747 14 Forel£p