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Volume 1 of Samuel Johnson’s collected works presents the beginning of a broad literary and biographical survey of one of eighteenth-century England’s most important writers. Johnson’s writing ranges from poetry and essays to criticism, stories, moral reflections, and other forms, giving the
This continuation of Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets carries the biographical tradition forward to writers who came after the poets Johnson himself treated. The basic method remains the same: literature is explained through the lives, characters, circumstances, and careers of its authors
Volume 6 of the collected works of Samuel Johnson brings together writing that displays the extraordinary range of one of eighteenth-century England’s most influential literary minds. The volume includes reviews, political pieces, and biographical lives, making it possible to see Johnson moving
Volume 10 of Samuel Johnson’s collected works consists of parliamentary debates, presented through the literary style of Johnson’s era rather than as modern verbatim transcripts. The debates cover political arguments made in the British Parliament, but their historical importance extends beyond
The final parliamentary-debate volume in this Johnson collection continues the record of political argument through eighteenth-century British debates. Its significance lies less in a single storyline than in the accumulation of speeches, positions, disagreements, and rhetorical strategies that
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