For authors with similar names, see Author:Samuel Johnson.
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Works
Biography, Criticism, Lexicography, Prose
- A description of the Western Islands of Scotland with Martin Martin and James Boswell (1703)external link
- Life of Richard Savage (1727) external link
- A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) - Volume I (transcription project); Volume II (transcription project)
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia to be migrated vol 1, vol 2
- The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland external link
- The Works of the English Poets (1779)
- Biographical History of the English Poets
- Character of Swift's Writings (c. 1779-1781)
- The Modern Traveller (1776) external link
- The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1794 corrected edition)
Essays, Pamphlets, Periodicals
- A History and Defence of Magna Charta (1769) (transcription project)
- Marmor Norfolciense, Or, An Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription, in Monkish Rhyme (1775)
- An essay concerning parliaments at a certainty; or, The Kalends of May (1693)
- Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language
- The Rambler (1759) Vols. (I), (II), (III), and (IV).
- The Idler (1767)- Volume I (start transcription) - Volume II (start transcription)
- Adventurer external link
- Political tracts, containing:
Letters
Poetry
- London
- Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane
- The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) to be migrated
- Irene, a Tragedy
Works about Johnson
- James Boswell, Life of Johnson
- H. P. Lovecraft, A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
- Arthur Murphy, An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson (1792)
- “Johnson, Samuel” by Thomas Babington Macaulay in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1881).
- "Samuel Johnson" in Essays and Addresses (1907) by Richard Claverhouse Jebb
- "Johnson, Samuel (lexicographer)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Johnson, Samuel (essayist)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- Six Essays on Johnson, by Sir Walter Raleigh (1910)
- "Johnson, Samuel," by Thomas Babington Macaulay in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with footnote and afterword by Thomas Seccombe)
- "Johnson, Dr. Samuel," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Johnson, Samuel (man of letters)," by William P. Trent in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Johnson, Samuel," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
- "Johnsoniana in Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen
On his works
- “Dr. Johnson’s ‘Lives of the Poets’,” in the Quarterly Review, 208 (1908)
- "Lives of the Poets," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Rambler, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Rasselas," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Vanity of Human Wishes, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
Transcription projects
- Johnsonian Miscellanies
- Footsteps of Dr. Johnson
- A critical examination of Dr G Birkbeck Hills "Johnsonian" Editions
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