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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Biographical Sketch -- Chronology -- Short Titles and Abbreviations -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- A Note on the Text -- Acknowledgments -- Periodical Essays -- Beginnings and Endings -- The Conduct of Life: Passions and Habits -- The Conduct of Life: Moral Choices -- Literature, Learning, and Authorship -- Marriage, Men, and Women -- Critical Theory and Practice -- War and Imperialism -- Fiction -- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia -- The Fountains: A Fairy Tale -- Poetry -- London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal -- To Miss ____ On her Playing upon the Harpsichord -- An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, A Musician -- Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747 -- The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated -- A Short Song of Congratulation -- On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet -- Writings on Law and Society -- Rambler, No. 114, Capital punishment -- Rambler, Nos. 170 and 171, On prostitution -- Rambler, Nos. 170 and 171, On prostitution -- From Boswell’s Life of Johnson, A legal brief against slavery -- Political Writings -- From An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain (1756) -- Observations on the Present State of Affairs (1756) -- The Bravery of the English Common Soldiers (1760) -- Introduction to Proceedings of the Committee on French Prisoners (1760) -- The Patriot (1774) -- Religious Writings -- Sermon 1 (On Marriage) -- Sermon 25 (On the Death of Elizabeth Johnson) -- From A Review of Soame Jenyns’s A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1757) -- Prayers and Meditations -- A Dictionary of the English Language -- To Lord Chesterfield, 7 February 1755 -- The Plan of A Dictionary of the English Language (1747) -- Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) -- Know Thyself -- Shakespeare Criticism -- The Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) -- Endnotes to Selected Plays -- From A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland -- [ Johnson’s Introduction] -- St. Andrews -- Aberbrothic -- Anoch -- Ostig in Sky -- Inch Kenneth -- Life of Savage -- Life of Cowley -- Life of Milton -- Life of Pope -- Life of Gray -- Index -- Words Glossed with Definitions from Johnson’s Dictionary A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel JohnsonSamuel 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 Yale Edition
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