Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

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Literary criticism

Smallwood, Philip. A substantial introduction to Samuel Johnson from the Literary Encyclopedia, 21 March 2002. On Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744)

Sheidlower, Jesse. Defining Moment: On its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, a look back at Doctor Johnston's exhaustive Dictionary. In Bookforum, Oct/Nov 2005

Internet Texts, Bibliography, and Web Sites

For a list of works by this author available on the internet as etexts, see the On-Line Books Page, a search engine for finding internet full texts

An academic list of Eighteenth-Century Resources, from Jack Lynch, Rutgers

Selected Bibliography: Samuel Johnson. A primary and secondary bibliography, organized by category, with annotations. By Jack Lynch, Rutgers Univ., 21 February 2001, from c18 Bibliographies Online (removed from http://www.c18.rutgers.edu/biblio/johnson.html)

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