Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose

This is a major new selection of Samuel Johnson's best work, delightfully introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and scrupulously annotated by Frank Brady and Mr. Wimsatt.

Samuel Johnson, the only writer in English since the Renaissance to give his name to a literary period, was the center of English letters in his time. He was Dictionary Johnson, the lexicographer who had single—handedly settled the English language (it was hoped) on a firm basis; he was the author of a handful of fine poems, includin...