Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

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From struggling Grub Street journalist to moralist and lexicographer to (as Smollett put it) 'The Great Cham of Literature', the literary career of Samuel Johnson divides into three stages.
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Overview

From struggling Grub Street journalist to moralist and lexicographer to (as Smollett put it) 'The Great Cham of Literature', the literary career of Samuel Johnson divides into three stages.
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Library Journal
In his introduction, Martin (Samuel Johnson: A Biography) eloquently contends that, with the exception of Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson is the one writer who must be read and not merely read about. Praising Johnson as a great moralist and thinker, Martin notes that his genius resides in his ability to present himself to his readers not as a preacher but as a man who has thought deeply and encourages his readers to do the same. This collection of Johnson's works, published to mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, focuses on those pieces that best illustrate the depth of Johnson's skill as a moral thinker and critic—a number of essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler are included as well as excerpts from Lives of the Poets and the prefaces to the Dictionary of the English Language and his Shakespeare edition. Martin also selected the moral fable Rasselas, for its ability to speak to readers of today. VERDICT Students of English literature and general readers should find much pleasure and insight in this collection. Highly recommended.—Anthony Pucci, Notre Dame H.S., Elmira, NY
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This handsome book, with its fine printing and striking cover, commemorates the 2009 tercentennial of Johnson's birth by introducing uninitiated readers to the most accessible of his writing, Martin satisfies this aim well, producing a title that serves as a companion to his Samuel Johnson: A Biography.
— C. S. Vilmar

New York Review of Books

We see in [Johnson's] essays the tiny brushwork of brilliant self-portraiture; we hear the rhythm of moral seriousness, the sound of contemplation as it engages with the questions of how to live and how to manage in the face of death. But most of all we feel the reach of an author—a writer attempting to reach past self-doubt, poverty, cant, and orthodoxy, in order to assert the power of individual authorship and free thinking in the face of more nebulous authorities. Samuel Johnson may have failed often enough to be personable, but he nevertheless freed subjectivity...and brought both dignity and self-sufficiency to the writing game, allowing authors to be who they chose to be, unshackled from patronage and the requirement to please great men. We see it in his essays and we see it again in his Lives of the Poets: a writer's writer, beckoning individual creative power out of the mire of dependency, making the work answerable only to high standards of excellence stringently applied.
— Andrew O'Hagan

Weekly Standard

Peter Martin, who joined the crowded ranks of Johnson's biographers last year, has given us a fair representation of [his] works here...Harvard Press deserves lavish praise for producing a handsome, well-made edition.
— Barton Swaim

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780674035850
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication date: 9/30/2009
  • Pages: 536
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 1.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Peter Martin has taught English literature on both sides of the Atlantic and is the author of A Life of James Boswell.

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