402:... that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches; we see the heavy form rolling; we hear it puffing; and then comes the "Why sir!" and "What then, sir?" and the "No, sir!" and the "You don't see your way through the question, sir!" What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion. To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity! To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries! That kind of fame which is commonly the most transient is, in his case, the most durable. The reputation of those writings, which he probably expected to be immortal, is every day fading; while those peculiarities of manner and that careless table-talk the memory of which, he probably thought, would die with him, are likely to be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe ..."
162:
555:, exactly at his own convenience; giving Boswell the credit of the whole! By what art-magic, our readers ask, has he united them? By the simplest of all: by Brackets. Never before was the full virtue of the Bracket made manifest. You begin a sentence under Boswell's guidance, thinking to be carried happily through it by the same: but no; in the middle, perhaps after your semicolon, and some consequent 'for,'—starts up one of these Bracket-ligatures, and stitches you in from half a page to twenty or thirty pages of a Hawkins, Tyers, Murphy, Piozzi; so that often one must make the old sad reflection, Where we are, we know; whither we are going, no man knoweth!
265:"can hardly be termed a biography at all", being merely "a collection of those entries in Boswell's diaries dealing with the occasions during the last twenty-two years of Johnson's life on which they met ... strung together with only a perfunctory effort to fill the gaps". Furthermore, Greene claims that the work "began with a well-organized press campaign, by Boswell and his friends, of puffing and of denigration of his rivals; and was given a boost by one of Macaulay's most memorable pieces of journalistic claptrap". Instead of being called a "biography", Greene suggests that the work should be called an "Ana", a sort of
47:
389:, convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues, an unsafe companion who never scrupled to repay the most liberal hospitality by the basest violation of confidence, a man without delicacy, without shame, without sense enough to know when he was hurting the feelings of others or when he was exposing himself to derision; and because he was all this, he has, in an important department of literature, immeasurably surpassed such writers as Tacitus, Clarendon, Alfieri, and his own idol Johnson.
458:
earthy in him, are so many blemishes in his Book, which still disturb us in its clearness; wholly hindrances, not helps. Towards
Johnson, however, his feeling was not Sycophancy, which is the lowest, but Reverence, which is the highest of human feelings. That loose-flowing, careless-looking Work of his is as a picture by one of Nature's own Artists; the best possible resemblance of a Reality; like the very image thereof in a clear mirror. Which indeed it was: let but the mirror be
441:?" Carlyle shared Macaulay's unfavourable verdict on Croker's editorial efforts: "there is simply no edition of Boswell to which this last would seem preferable". Carlyle did not, however, share Macaulay's view of Boswell's character. Boswell, though "a foolish, inflated creature, swimming in an element of self-conceit"), had had, said Carlyle, the great good sense to admire and attach himself to Dr Johnson (an attachment which had little to offer materially) and the
2004:
289:
balanced by personal eccentricities too visible to be ignored, and whose moral penetration derives from his own sense of tragic self-deception. Yet the image never dissolves completely, for in the end we realize there has been an essential truth in the myth all along, that the idealized and disembodied image of
Johnson existing in the mind of his public ... In this way the myth serves to expand and authenticate the more complex image of Johnson".
462:, this is the great point; the picture must and will be genuine. How the babbling Bozzy, inspired only by love, and the recognition and vision which love can lend, epitomises nightly the words of Wisdom, the deeds and aspects of Wisdom, and so, by little and little, unconsciously works together for us a whole Johnsoniad; a more free, perfect, sunlit and spirit-speaking likeness than for many centuries had been drawn by man of man!
153:
Johnson was 54 years old, and
Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Nonetheless, the book is valued as both an important source of information on Johnson and his times, as well as an important work of literature.
294:
the same "igloo" of material that
Boswell had to deal with: limited information about Johnson's first forty years, and an abundance after. Simply put, "Johnson's life continues to hold attention" and "every scrap of evidence relating to Johnson's life has continued to be examined and many more details have been added" because "it is so close to general human experience in a wide variety of ways".
246:
372:
eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London ... such was this man, and such he was content and proud to be". Macaulay also claimed "Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them". Macaulay also criticised (as did
Lockhart) what he saw as a lack of discretion in the way the
546:: "His remarks and criticisms far too often deserve the contempt that Macaulay so liberally poured on them. Without being deeply versed in books, he was shallow in himself." More objectionably, Croker interpolated into his Boswell text from the contemporaneous rival biographies of Johnson. Carlyle reviews and denounces the editor's procedure as follows:
176:
Boswell kept a series of journals thoroughly detailing his day-to-day experience. This journal, when published in the 20th century, filled eighteen volumes, and it was on this large collection of detailed notes that
Boswell would base his works on Johnson's life. Johnson, in commenting on Boswell's excessive note-taking, playfully wrote to
313:(1795), wrote: "With some venial exceptions on the score of egotism and indiscriminate admiration, his work exhibits the most copious, interesting, and finished picture of the life and opinions of an eminent man, that was ever executed; and is justly esteemed one of the most instructive and entertaining books in the English language."
198:, Boswell started working on the "vast treasure of his conversations at different times" that he recorded in his journals. His goal was to recreate Johnson's "life in scenes". Because Johnson was 53 when Boswell first met him, the last 20 years of Johnson's life occupy four fifths of the book. Furthermore, as literary critic
1564:
The text of this edition of
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., broken down by year, is taken from the two-volume Oxford edition of 1904; in a few places I've corrected errors by comparing the text with that of G. B. Hill and L. F. Powell, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-64), and with the
457:
Boswell wrote a good Book because he had a heart and an eye to discern Wisdom, and an utterance to render it forth; because of his free insight, his lively talent, above all, of his Love and childlike Open-mindedness. His sneaking sycophancies, his greediness and forwardness, whatever was bestial and
293:
Modern biographers have since corrected
Boswell's errors. This is not to say that Boswell's work is wrong or of no use: scholars such as Walter Jackson Bate appreciate the "detail" and the "treasury of conversation" that it contains. All of Johnson's biographers, according to Bate, have to go through
415:
in 1832 in review of Croker's edition. The first of
Carlyle's two essays, on 'Biography', appeared in issue 27, with the second, 'Boswell's Life of Johnson', in issue 28. Carlyle wanted more than facts from histories and biographies: "The thing I want to see is not Redbook Lists and Court Calendars,
384:
Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensitivity to all reproof, he could never have produced so excellent a book. He was a slave, proud of his servitude,
333:
Boswell knew that the charm of
Biography is a certain capricious levity that follows all the rambling of conversation; that the Biographer should be utterly forgotten; that the reader should feel acquainted with the man of whom he reads, without remembering a single word that he has read: — but in
152:
of biography. It is notable for its extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. Many have called it the greatest biography written in English, but some modern critics object that the work cannot be considered a proper biography. Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject began in 1763, when
479:
the man through the artist, the artist in the man". Leopold Damrosch claims that the work is of those that "do not lend themselves very easily to the usual categories by which the critic explains and justifies his admiration". Walter Jackson Bate emphasised the uniqueness of the work when he says
393:
Macaulay noted that Boswell could give a detailed account only of Johnson's later years: "We know him , not as he was known to men of his own generation, but as he was known to men whose father he might have been" and that long after Johnson's own works had been forgotten, he would be remembered
288:
portrayal of Johnson as a moral hero begins in myth ... As the biographical story unfolds, of course, this image dissolves and there emerges the figure of an infinitely more complex and heroic Johnson whose moral wisdom is won through a constant struggle with despair, whose moral sanity is
175:
On 16 May 1763, as a 22-year-old Scot visiting London, Boswell first met Johnson in the book shop of Johnson's friend Tom Davies. They quickly became friends, although for many years they met only when Boswell visited London in the intervals of his law practice in Scotland. From the age of 20,
518:
volumes was published in July 1793. This second edition was augmented by "many valuable additions," which were appended to the 1791 text; according to Boswell's own "Advertisement," "These have I ordered to be printed separately in quarto, for the accommodation of the purchasers of the first
260:
is the best known and most widely read today. Since first publication it has passed through hundreds of editions and, on account of its great length, many selections and abridgements. Yet opinion among 20th-century Johnson scholars such as Edmund Wilson and Donald Greene is that Boswell's
371:
was possible only because of traits and habits of Boswell's that Macaulay saw as contemptible: "Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an
491:
seems to me seriously misleading. In the first place, it has real defects of organization and structure; in the second place (and more importantly) it leaves much to be desired as the comprehensive interpretation of a life." Similarly, although Donald Greene thought that Boswell's
334:
the execution of these just conceptions, Boswell is continually jogging your elbow, and begging you to forget him; he is incessantly crowding upon your notice. In making you intimately acquainted with his hero, Boswell is not satisfied with telling you, when Samuel Johnson is
366:
which was to prevail for many years. Macaulay was damning of Croker's editing: "This edition is ill compiled, ill arranged, ill written, and ill printed". And the famously ambivalent opinion Macaulay gave of Boswell himself was that the unquestioned excellence of the
183:
On 6 August 1773, eleven years after first meeting Boswell, Johnson set out to visit his friend in Scotland, to begin "a journey to the western islands of Scotland", as Johnson's 1775 account of their travels would put it. Boswell's account,
523:, who had been instrumental in the preparation of the previous editions. Malone inserted the additions in the text, adding some bracketed and credited notes by himself and other contributors, including Boswell's son
416:
and Parliamentary Registers, but the LIFE OF MAN in England: what men did, thought, suffered, enjoyed; the form, especially the spirit, of their terrestrial existence, its outward environment, its inward principle;
550:
Four Books Mr. C. had by him, wherefrom to gather light for the fifth, which was Boswell's. What does he do but now, in the placidest manner,—slit the whole five into slips, and sew these together into a
436:
during those days that twenty other Books, falsely entitled “Histories” which take to themselves that special aim". "How comes it," Carlyle asked, "that in England we have simply one good Biography, this
563:
was published in 1887 and returned to the standard of the third edition text. Hill's work in six volumes is copiously annotated, and became standard to such an extent that when in the 20th century,
475:"the crowning achievement of an artist who for more than twenty five years had been deliberately disciplining himself for such a task." W. K. Wimsatt argues, "the correct response to Boswell is to
480:"nothing comparable to it had existed. Nor has anything comparable been written since, because that special union of talents, opportunities, and subject matter has never been duplicated."
1912:
346:
act like his neighbour. Boswell is not only the Biographer of Johnson in his closet; but he is the biographer of the human species in their most secret retirement.
432:
and well presented, will fix itself in a susceptive memory and lie ennobled there". Consequently, "This Book of Boswell’s will give us more real insight into the
161:
1570:
1947:
202:
has pointed out, Boswell could have spent no more than 250 days with Johnson and, therefore, had to have drawn the rest of the material for the
1803:
355:
1900:
1839:
273:, moreover, "corrects" many of Johnson's quotations, censors many of the more vulgar comments, and largely ignores Johnson's early years.
1970:
857:
870:
376:
reveals Johnson's and others' personal lives, foibles, habits and private conversation; but contended that it was this that made the
1600:
527:. This third edition has been regarded as definitive by many editors. Malone brought out further editions in 1804, 1807, and 1811.
1798:
1746:
1190:(ed. Thomas H. Dickinson & Frederick W. Roe), NY: American Book Co., 1908, p. 484, this Latin phrase means "Sixth something."
1653:
1248:
1939:
1931:
1545:
1489:
1258:
494:
186:
148:. The work was from the beginning a critical and popular success, and represents a landmark in the development of the modern
28:
1815:
1955:
1846:
1820:
2041:
234:
1663:
1658:
1472:
1402:
1369:
1350:
1810:
1623:
568:
306:
2031:
213:, other friends of Johnson's published or prepared their own biographies or collections of anecdotes on Johnson:
17:
1130:
1091:
1067:
1041:
1018:
1709:
122:
190:(1786), published after Johnson's death, was a trial of Boswell's biographical method before commencing his
2036:
1878:
1628:
1593:
1397:
1753:
560:
543:
1893:
1408:
1274:
567:
was commissioned to revise it (1934–64), Hill's pagination was retained. The single-volume edition by
1793:
1760:
1202:
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Corrected and Republished (First Time, 1839; Final, 1869). Vol. IV
1160:
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Corrected and Republished (First Time, 1839; Final, 1869). Vol. IV
874:, 2nd vol. of the Everyman edition (Dent & Sons, London, 1907) from which these quotes are taken.
535:
524:
574:
In 1917, Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1871–1964) published an abridged edition, which is available via
1633:
1215:
1173:
169:
27:
This article is about the book written by James Boswell. For the work written by John Hawkins, see
951:
237:
among many. The last edition Boswell worked on was the third, published after his death, in 1799.
2007:
1586:
903:
266:
46:
519:
edition." The third edition, appearing in 1799 after Boswell's death, was the responsibility of
1853:
1704:
1648:
1699:
1668:
1643:
214:
1144:
814:
424:
it was; whence it proceeded, whither it was tending." Carlyle professed to find this in the
1870:
1724:
854:
411:
8:
2026:
1773:
1336:
1307:
945:
897:
1518:
1514:
790:"James Boswell to Edmund Burke 16 July 1791", Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.),
1209:
1167:
820:
531:
514:
volumes, with 1,750 copies printed. Once this was exhausted, a second edition in three
487:
if viewed as a conventional biography: "he usual claim that it is the world's greatest
428:, even in its simplest anecdotes: "Some slight, perhaps mean and even ugly incident if
316:
277:
1638:
1533:
1485:
1468:
1462:
1365:
1346:
1254:
1126:
1087:
1063:
1037:
1014:
824:
575:
226:
206:
either from Johnson himself or from secondary sources recounting various incidents.
1340:
542:. The weakness of Croker's notes, criticised by both reviewers, is acknowledged by
1551:
868:, September 1831. A slightly revised version can be found in Macaulay's collected
256:
There are many biographies and biographers of Samuel Johnson, but James Boswell's
1422:
Dowling, William. "Biographer, Hero, and Audience in Boswell's Life of Johnson."
1289:
1230:
861:
386:
1498:, ed. William K Wimsatt. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1965
1684:
1609:
1393:
539:
406:
249:
218:
145:
85:
1290:"Boswell's Life of Johnson, Abridged & Edited by Charles Grosvenor Osgood"
2020:
1719:
1694:
1689:
1541:
1429:
1407:. The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes. Vol. XXVIII. New York:
520:
502:
was inadequate and Johnson's later years deserved a more accurate biography.
199:
177:
165:
141:
57:
362:
was highly influential and established a way of thinking of Boswell and his
1990:
1885:
1714:
1510:
828:
564:
309:
that the work entertained him more than any other. Robert Anderson, in his
302:
471:
More recent critics have been mostly positive. Frederick Pottle calls the
1767:
1729:
321:
280:, the image of Johnson that Boswell creates features elements of "myth":
230:
222:
792:
The Correspondence of Edmund Burke. Volume VI: July 1789 – December 1791
127:
1446:
Lustig, Irma S. "Boswell's Literary Criticism in the Life of Johnson"
1964:
1482:
Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell
1528:
571:(1953) also remains in print, published by Oxford University Press.
510:
The first edition of Boswell's work appeared on 16 May 1791, in two
1321:
1253:. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford University Press. 1 August 2008.
1464:
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
338:
upon any occasion; but he overwhelms you with his proofs, that he
1578:
534:
produced a new edition which was swiftly condemned in reviews by
1389:, Vol. VI ed. Alfred Cobban and R. A. Smith. Chicago, 1958–1968.
612:
Johnson 1952 "Johnson's letter to Mrs Thrale 11 June 1775" p. 42
515:
511:
342:
like other men, on occasions when every man, hero or not hero,
1112:
NY and London: Harper & Brothers, . Vol. 1, p. xxii-xxiii.
1378:
Brady, Frank. "Boswell's Self-Presentation and His Critics."
245:
149:
180:, "One would think the man had been hired to spy upon me".
1415:
Damrosch, Leopold. "The Life of Johnson: An Anti-Theory."
794:(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), pp. 297–298
1443:
Vol II, ed. R. W. Chapman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952.
1432:. "Do We Need a Biography of Johnson's "Boswell" Years?"
1056:
Malone, Edmund, "Advertisement to the Third Edition," in
1571:
Librivox (free, public domain) audiobook recordings of
483:
However, Leopold Damrosch sees problems with Boswell's
1494:
Wimsatt, W. K. "The Fact Imagined: James Boswell, in
819:(PhD). Harvard University. pp. 116–117, quoting
1805:
Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth
1360:Boswell, James (1986), Hibbert, Christopher (ed.),
1382:, Vol. 12, No. 3, (Summer, 1972), pp. 545–555
1419:, Vol. 6, No. 4, (Summer, 1973), pp. 486–505
2018:
1322:General and cited references and further reading
1082:Rogers, Pat, "Introduction," in Boswell, James,
1009:Rogers, Pat, "Introduction," in Boswell, James,
950:(Everyman ed.). London: J M Dent. pp.
902:(Everyman ed.). London: J M Dent. pp.
1426:Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer, 1980), pp. 475–491
717:
715:
1950:Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson
702:
700:
698:
1594:
1455:The Literary Career of James Boswell, Esquire
1308:"Boswell's Life of Johnson, by James Boswell"
646:
644:
642:
596:
594:
592:
590:
1901:The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1840:A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
1448:SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
1424:SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
1380:SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
1162:. London: Chapman and Hall. pp. 67–131.
762:
760:
712:
683:
466:
34:Biography of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
1480:Tankard, Paul, ed. "The Lives of Johnson."
1436:, Vol. 9, No. 3, (Autumn 1979), pp. 128–136
1204:. London: Chapman and Hall. pp. 71–72.
886:
884:
882:
880:
850:
848:
846:
844:
842:
840:
838:
695:
498:a "splendid performance", he felt that the
1973:A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson
1601:
1587:
1484:. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
1450:Vol 6, No 3 (Summer 1966) pp. 529–541
1121:"Select Bibliography," in Boswell, James,
1030:"Advertisement to the Second Edition," in
934:
932:
930:
928:
926:
924:
922:
639:
627:
587:
45:
1125:, ed. R.W. Chapman. NY: Oxford UP, 1998.
1086:, ed. R.W. Chapman. NY: Oxford UP, 1998.
1013:, ed. R.W. Chapman. NY: Oxford UP, 1998.
757:
350:
1467:, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
877:
835:
812:
445:which Carlyle thought indispensable for
244:
160:
1816:Proposals for an Edition of Shakespeare
1540:
1392:
1359:
1345:, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1228:
1199:
1157:
1145:"Macaulay's Review of Croker's Boswell"
1057:
1031:
943:
919:
895:
751:
730:
706:
689:
14:
2019:
1460:
1287:
325:in 1818. The essay was republished in
1934:The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
1582:
1104:
1102:
1100:
855:Macaulay's Review of Croker's Boswell
495:The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
187:The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
29:Life of Samuel Johnson (Hawkins book)
1958:Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson
1847:A Dictionary of the English Language
1335:
1142:
778:
766:
650:
633:
621:
600:
297:
1231:"Boswell's Life of Johnson, Vol. 1"
505:
24:
1608:
1411:(published 1904). pp. 62–135.
1288:Osgood, Charles Grosvenor (1917).
1097:
276:According to American academician
25:
2053:
1503:
1403:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
947:English and Other Critical Essays
899:English and Other Critical Essays
209:Before Boswell could publish his
144:is a biography of English writer
137:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
68:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
2003:
2002:
1811:The Plays of William Shakespeare
1550:. Oxford: Oxford. Archived from
1509:Scan of 1791 first edition from
1188:Nineteenth Century English Prose
964:("no 704 of Everyman's Library")
916:("no 704 of Everyman's Library")
327:Emerson's United States Magazine
1300:
1281:
1267:
1241:
1222:
1193:
1180:
1151:
1136:
1115:
1076:
1050:
1024:
1003:
994:
985:
976:
967:
816:The Life and Works of John Neal
806:
797:
784:
772:
745:
736:
724:
1387:Correspondence of Edmund Burke
1364:, New York: Penguin Classics,
871:Critical and Historical Essays
674:
665:
656:
615:
606:
13:
1:
1565:second London edition (1793).
581:
156:
1624:Birthplace, home, and museum
1062:. NY: Oxford UP. p. 9.
1036:. NY: Oxford UP. p. 6.
813:Richards, Irving T. (1933).
240:
7:
1544:(1904). Lynch, Jack (ed.).
1398:"Boswell's Life of Johnson"
1275:"Osgood, Charles Grosvenor"
1186:According to the anthology
1108:Hill, George Birkbeck, ed.
319:praised Boswell's style in
10:
2058:
2042:Works about Samuel Johnson
1894:The Vanity of Human Wishes
1573:The Life of Samuel Johnson
1417:Eighteenth-Century Studies
1362:The Life of Samuel Johnson
1330:Works of the British Poets
1110:Boswell's Life of Johnson.
311:Works of the British Poets
194:. With the success of the
26:
2000:
1982:
1910:
1863:
1831:
1794:Life of Mr Richard Savage
1782:
1738:
1677:
1616:
1441:Letters of Samuel Johnson
1000:Damrosch 1973 pp. 493–494
942:– quotes from version in
894:– quotes from version in
467:20th-century reassessment
117:
109:
99:
91:
81:
73:
63:
53:
44:
1754:The Gentleman's Magazine
1710:Elizabeth Johnson (wife)
1332:. Vol. XI. London, 1795.
1200:Carlyle, Thomas (n.d.).
1158:Carlyle, Thomas (n.d.).
944:Carlyle, Thomas (1915).
896:Carlyle, Thomas (1915).
742:Dowling 1980 pp. 478–479
1434:Modern Language Studies
1409:Charles Scribner's Sons
1229:Boswell, James (1887).
1058:Boswell, James (1998).
1032:Boswell, James (1998).
40:Life of Samuel Johnson
2032:Books by James Boswell
1942:Life of Samuel Johnson
1926:Life of Samuel Johnson
1854:Letter to Chesterfield
1821:Preface to Shakespeare
1739:Essays and periodicals
1547:Life of Samuel Johnson
557:
464:
451:vividly uttering forth
404:
391:
351:19th-century criticism
348:
291:
258:Life of Samuel Johnson
253:
172:
123:Life of Samuel Johnson
1461:Sisman, Adam (2001),
1328:Anderson, Robert ed.
860:5 August 2011 at the
548:
455:
400:
382:
331:
282:
269:. Boswell's original
248:
164:
1669:Samuel Johnson Prize
1337:Bate, Walter Jackson
1214:: CS1 maint: year (
1172:: CS1 maint: year (
991:Damrosch 1973 p. 486
890:April 1832 issue of
803:Anderson 1795 p. 780
662:Damrosch 1973 p. 494
561:George Birkbeck Hill
544:George Birkbeck Hill
409:wrote two essays in
2037:British biographies
1832:Miscellaneous prose
1774:Taxation no Tyranny
1453:Pottle, Frederick.
1021:. Pp. xxvii-xxviii.
982:Wimsatt 1965 p. 183
358:'s critique in the
64:Original title
41:
1864:Fiction and poetry
1799:Lives of the Poets
1747:Birmingham Journal
1654:Literary criticism
1644:Dr Johnson's House
1537:(Abridged edition)
1496:Hateful Contraries
1143:Macaulay, Thomas.
973:Pottle 1929 p. xxi
938:May 1832 issue of
721:Greene 1979 p. 130
671:Greene 1979 p. 129
532:John Wilson Croker
434:History of England
394:through Boswell's
380:a great biography.
336:not like other men
254:
252:in his later years
173:
39:
2014:
2013:
1639:Edial Hall School
1554:on 10 August 2007
1534:Project Gutenberg
1490:978-0-300-14126-9
1439:Johnson, Samuel.
1312:www.gutenberg.org
1260:978-0-19-954021-1
680:Brady 1972 p. 548
576:Project Gutenberg
559:A new edition by
443:open loving heart
439:Boswell’s Johnson
412:Fraser's Magazine
298:Critical response
227:Elizabeth Montagu
133:
132:
110:Publication place
16:(Redirected from
2049:
2006:
2005:
1956:Hester Thrale's
1948:Arthur Murphy's
1932:James Boswell's
1924:James Boswell's
1806:
1603:
1596:
1589:
1580:
1579:
1567:
1561:
1559:
1536:
1477:
1412:
1374:
1355:
1316:
1315:
1304:
1298:
1297:
1285:
1279:
1278:
1271:
1265:
1264:
1245:
1239:
1238:
1226:
1220:
1219:
1213:
1205:
1197:
1191:
1184:
1178:
1177:
1171:
1163:
1155:
1149:
1148:
1140:
1134:
1119:
1113:
1106:
1095:
1080:
1074:
1073:
1054:
1048:
1047:
1028:
1022:
1007:
1001:
998:
992:
989:
983:
980:
974:
971:
965:
963:
961:
959:
936:
917:
915:
913:
911:
888:
875:
866:Edinburgh Review
852:
833:
832:
810:
804:
801:
795:
788:
782:
776:
770:
764:
755:
749:
743:
740:
734:
728:
722:
719:
710:
704:
693:
687:
681:
678:
672:
669:
663:
660:
654:
648:
637:
631:
625:
619:
613:
610:
604:
598:
506:Notable editions
360:Edinburgh Review
284:In a sense, the
101:Publication date
49:
42:
38:
21:
2057:
2056:
2052:
2051:
2050:
2048:
2047:
2046:
2017:
2016:
2015:
2010:
1996:
1978:
1917:
1914:
1906:
1859:
1827:
1804:
1787:
1785:
1778:
1734:
1673:
1664:Religious views
1659:Political views
1617:Life and topics
1612:
1607:
1557:
1555:
1529:Life of Johnson
1526:
1506:
1501:
1475:
1457:. Oxford, 1929.
1394:Carlyle, Thomas
1385:Burke, Edmund.
1372:
1353:
1324:
1319:
1306:
1305:
1301:
1286:
1282:
1273:
1272:
1268:
1261:
1250:Life of Johnson
1247:
1246:
1242:
1227:
1223:
1207:
1206:
1198:
1194:
1185:
1181:
1165:
1164:
1156:
1152:
1141:
1137:
1123:Life of Johnson
1120:
1116:
1107:
1098:
1084:Life of Johnson
1081:
1077:
1070:
1060:Life of Johnson
1055:
1051:
1044:
1034:Life of Johnson
1029:
1025:
1011:Life of Johnson
1008:
1004:
999:
995:
990:
986:
981:
977:
972:
968:
957:
955:
937:
920:
909:
907:
889:
878:
862:Wayback Machine
853:
836:
811:
807:
802:
798:
789:
785:
777:
773:
765:
758:
750:
746:
741:
737:
729:
725:
720:
713:
705:
696:
688:
684:
679:
675:
670:
666:
661:
657:
649:
640:
632:
628:
620:
616:
611:
607:
599:
588:
584:
536:Thomas Macaulay
508:
469:
378:Life of Johnson
364:Life of Johnson
353:
307:King George III
300:
278:William Dowling
243:
211:Life of Johnson
192:Life of Johnson
170:George Willison
159:
102:
35:
32:
23:
22:
18:Life of Johnson
15:
12:
11:
5:
2055:
2045:
2044:
2039:
2034:
2029:
2012:
2011:
2001:
1998:
1997:
1995:
1994:
1986:
1984:
1980:
1979:
1977:
1976:
1971:Thomas Tyer's
1968:
1961:
1953:
1945:
1940:John Hawkins'
1937:
1929:
1920:
1918:
1911:
1908:
1907:
1905:
1904:
1897:
1890:
1883:
1876:
1867:
1865:
1861:
1860:
1858:
1857:
1850:
1843:
1835:
1833:
1829:
1828:
1826:
1825:
1824:
1823:
1818:
1808:
1801:
1796:
1790:
1788:
1783:
1780:
1779:
1777:
1776:
1771:
1764:
1757:
1750:
1742:
1740:
1736:
1735:
1733:
1732:
1727:
1722:
1717:
1712:
1707:
1702:
1697:
1692:
1687:
1685:Francis Barber
1681:
1679:
1675:
1674:
1672:
1671:
1666:
1661:
1656:
1651:
1646:
1641:
1636:
1631:
1626:
1620:
1618:
1614:
1613:
1610:Samuel Johnson
1606:
1605:
1598:
1591:
1583:
1577:
1576:
1568:
1542:Boswell, James
1538:
1524:
1522:
1505:
1504:External links
1502:
1500:
1499:
1492:
1478:
1473:
1458:
1451:
1444:
1437:
1430:Greene, Donald
1427:
1420:
1413:
1390:
1383:
1376:
1370:
1357:
1351:
1342:Samuel Johnson
1333:
1325:
1323:
1320:
1318:
1317:
1299:
1280:
1266:
1259:
1240:
1221:
1192:
1179:
1150:
1135:
1114:
1096:
1075:
1068:
1049:
1042:
1023:
1002:
993:
984:
975:
966:
918:
876:
834:
805:
796:
783:
771:
756:
744:
735:
723:
711:
694:
682:
673:
664:
655:
638:
626:
614:
605:
585:
583:
580:
540:Thomas Carlyle
507:
504:
468:
465:
407:Thomas Carlyle
352:
349:
299:
296:
250:Samuel Johnson
242:
239:
235:Horace Walpole
219:Frances Burney
158:
155:
146:Samuel Johnson
131:
130:
119:
115:
114:
113:United Kingdom
111:
107:
106:
103:
100:
97:
96:
93:
89:
88:
86:Samuel Johnson
83:
79:
78:
75:
71:
70:
65:
61:
60:
55:
51:
50:
33:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
2054:
2043:
2040:
2038:
2035:
2033:
2030:
2028:
2025:
2024:
2022:
2009:
1999:
1993:
1992:
1988:
1987:
1985:
1981:
1975:
1974:
1969:
1967:
1966:
1962:
1960:
1959:
1954:
1952:
1951:
1946:
1944:
1943:
1938:
1936:
1935:
1930:
1928:
1927:
1922:
1921:
1919:
1916:
1909:
1903:
1902:
1898:
1896:
1895:
1891:
1889:
1888:
1884:
1882:
1881:
1877:
1875:
1873:
1869:
1868:
1866:
1862:
1856:
1855:
1851:
1849:
1848:
1844:
1842:
1841:
1837:
1836:
1834:
1830:
1822:
1819:
1817:
1814:
1813:
1812:
1809:
1807:
1802:
1800:
1797:
1795:
1792:
1791:
1789:
1784:Biography and
1781:
1775:
1772:
1770:
1769:
1765:
1763:
1762:
1758:
1756:
1755:
1751:
1749:
1748:
1744:
1743:
1741:
1737:
1731:
1728:
1726:
1725:Anna Williams
1723:
1721:
1720:Hester Thrale
1718:
1716:
1713:
1711:
1708:
1706:
1705:Arthur Murphy
1703:
1701:
1698:
1696:
1695:David Garrick
1693:
1691:
1690:James Boswell
1688:
1686:
1683:
1682:
1680:
1676:
1670:
1667:
1665:
1662:
1660:
1657:
1655:
1652:
1650:
1647:
1645:
1642:
1640:
1637:
1635:
1632:
1630:
1627:
1625:
1622:
1621:
1619:
1615:
1611:
1604:
1599:
1597:
1592:
1590:
1585:
1584:
1581:
1575:
1574:
1569:
1566:
1553:
1549:
1548:
1543:
1539:
1535:
1531:
1530:
1525:
1523:
1520:
1516:
1512:
1508:
1507:
1497:
1493:
1491:
1487:
1483:
1479:
1476:
1474:0-374-11561-3
1470:
1466:
1465:
1459:
1456:
1452:
1449:
1445:
1442:
1438:
1435:
1431:
1428:
1425:
1421:
1418:
1414:
1410:
1406:
1404:
1399:
1395:
1391:
1388:
1384:
1381:
1377:
1373:
1371:0-14-043116-0
1367:
1363:
1358:
1354:
1352:0-15-179260-7
1348:
1344:
1343:
1338:
1334:
1331:
1327:
1326:
1313:
1309:
1303:
1295:
1291:
1284:
1276:
1270:
1262:
1256:
1252:
1251:
1244:
1236:
1232:
1225:
1217:
1211:
1203:
1196:
1189:
1183:
1175:
1169:
1161:
1154:
1146:
1139:
1132:
1128:
1124:
1118:
1111:
1105:
1103:
1101:
1094:. Pp. xxviii.
1093:
1089:
1085:
1079:
1071:
1065:
1061:
1053:
1045:
1039:
1035:
1027:
1020:
1016:
1012:
1006:
997:
988:
979:
970:
953:
949:
948:
941:
935:
933:
931:
929:
927:
925:
923:
905:
901:
900:
893:
887:
885:
883:
881:
873:
872:
867:
863:
859:
856:
851:
849:
847:
845:
843:
841:
839:
830:
826:
822:
818:
817:
809:
800:
793:
787:
780:
775:
768:
763:
761:
753:
748:
739:
732:
727:
718:
716:
708:
703:
701:
699:
691:
686:
677:
668:
659:
653:, p. 364
652:
647:
645:
643:
636:, p. 468
635:
630:
624:, p. 463
623:
618:
609:
603:, p. 360
602:
597:
595:
593:
591:
586:
579:
577:
572:
570:
569:R. W. Chapman
566:
562:
556:
554:
547:
545:
541:
537:
533:
528:
526:
522:
521:Edmond Malone
517:
513:
503:
501:
497:
496:
490:
486:
481:
478:
474:
463:
461:
454:
452:
448:
444:
440:
435:
431:
427:
423:
419:
414:
413:
408:
403:
399:
397:
390:
388:
381:
379:
375:
370:
365:
361:
357:
347:
345:
341:
337:
330:
328:
324:
323:
318:
314:
312:
308:
304:
295:
290:
287:
281:
279:
274:
272:
268:
264:
259:
251:
247:
238:
236:
232:
228:
224:
220:
216:
212:
207:
205:
201:
200:Donald Greene
197:
193:
189:
188:
181:
179:
178:Hester Thrale
171:
167:
166:James Boswell
163:
154:
151:
147:
143:
142:James Boswell
139:
138:
129:
125:
124:
120:
116:
112:
108:
104:
98:
94:
90:
87:
84:
80:
76:
72:
69:
66:
62:
59:
58:James Boswell
56:
52:
48:
43:
37:
30:
19:
1991:Blinking Sam
1989:
1972:
1963:
1957:
1949:
1941:
1933:
1925:
1923:
1913:Contemporary
1899:
1892:
1886:
1879:
1871:
1852:
1845:
1838:
1766:
1759:
1752:
1745:
1715:Henry Thrale
1700:John Hawkins
1572:
1563:
1556:. Retrieved
1552:the original
1546:
1527:
1511:Google Books
1495:
1481:
1463:
1454:
1447:
1440:
1433:
1423:
1416:
1405:: Volume III
1401:
1386:
1379:
1361:
1341:
1329:
1311:
1302:
1294:Google Books
1293:
1283:
1269:
1249:
1243:
1235:Google Books
1234:
1224:
1201:
1195:
1187:
1182:
1159:
1153:
1138:
1122:
1117:
1109:
1083:
1078:
1059:
1052:
1033:
1026:
1010:
1005:
996:
987:
978:
969:
956:. Retrieved
946:
939:
908:. Retrieved
898:
891:
869:
865:
815:
808:
799:
791:
786:
774:
769:, p. xx
754:, p. 26
752:Boswell 1986
747:
738:
733:, p. 25
731:Boswell 1986
726:
707:Boswell 1986
692:, p. 17
690:Boswell 1986
685:
676:
667:
658:
629:
617:
608:
573:
565:L. F. Powell
558:
552:
549:
529:
509:
499:
493:
488:
484:
482:
476:
472:
470:
459:
456:
450:
446:
442:
438:
433:
429:
425:
421:
417:
410:
405:
401:
395:
392:
383:
377:
373:
368:
363:
359:
354:
343:
339:
335:
332:
326:
320:
315:
310:
303:Edmund Burke
301:
292:
285:
283:
275:
270:
262:
257:
255:
215:John Hawkins
210:
208:
203:
195:
191:
185:
182:
174:
136:
135:
134:
121:
67:
36:
1874:translation
1768:The Rambler
1133:. Pp. xxxv.
781:, p. 3
709:, p. 7
553:sextum quid
322:The Portico
231:Hannah More
223:Anna Seward
2027:1791 books
2021:Categories
1629:Early life
1558:12 January
1131:0192835319
1092:0192835319
1069:0192835319
1043:0192835319
1019:0192835319
823:'s essay.
582:References
267:table talk
217:, Thrale,
168:at 25, by
157:Background
140:(1791) by
128:Wikisource
1983:Portraits
1965:Thraliana
1786:criticism
1761:The Idler
1519:Volume II
1210:cite book
1168:cite book
821:John Neal
779:Bate 1977
767:Bate 1977
651:Bate 1977
634:Bate 1977
622:Bate 1977
601:Bate 1977
530:In 1831,
489:biography
329:in 1856.
317:John Neal
241:Biography
95:Biography
2008:Category
1915:accounts
1649:The Club
1515:Volume I
1396:(1832).
1339:(1977),
940:Fraser's
892:Fraser's
858:Archived
387:Paul Pry
356:Macaulay
74:Language
1872:Messiah
958:10 July
910:10 July
829:7588473
447:knowing
196:Journal
82:Subject
77:English
1880:London
1678:People
1634:Health
1488:
1471:
1368:
1349:
1257:
1129:
1090:
1066:
1040:
1017:
827:
516:octavo
512:quarto
286:Life's
233:, and
54:Author
1887:Irene
1730:Hodge
525:James
477:value
460:clear
305:told
150:genre
92:Genre
1560:2021
1517:and
1486:ISBN
1469:ISBN
1366:ISBN
1347:ISBN
1255:ISBN
1216:link
1174:link
1127:ISBN
1088:ISBN
1064:ISBN
1038:ISBN
1015:ISBN
960:2014
912:2014
825:OCLC
538:and
500:Life
485:Life
473:Life
449:and
430:real
426:Life
422:what
420:and
396:Life
374:Life
369:Life
344:must
271:Life
263:Life
204:Life
118:Text
105:1791
1532:at
954:–64
906:–79
418:how
126:at
2023::
1562:.
1513::
1400:.
1310:.
1292:.
1233:.
1212:}}
1208:{{
1170:}}
1166:{{
1099:^
921:^
904:65
879:^
864:,
837:^
759:^
714:^
697:^
641:^
589:^
578:.
385:a
340:is
229:,
225:,
221:,
1602:e
1595:t
1588:v
1521:.
1375:.
1356:.
1314:.
1296:.
1277:.
1263:.
1237:.
1218:)
1176:)
1147:.
1072:.
1046:.
962:.
952:1
914:.
831:.
453::
398::
31:.
20:)
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.
