Lives of the Poets

Further reading

  • Bate, W. Jackson (1998), Samuel Johnson. A Biography, Berkeley: Conterpoint, ISBN 978-1-58243-524-4
  • Broadley, A. M. (1909), Doctor Johnson and Mrs Thrale: Including Mrs Thrale's unpublished Journal of the Welsh Tour Made in 1774 and Much Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of the Streatham Coterie, London: John Lane The Bodley Head
  • Fine, L. G. (May–June 2006), "Samuel Johnson's illnesses", J Nephrol, 19 (Suppl 10): S110–114, PMID 16874722
  • Gopnik, Adam (8 December 2008), "Man of Fetters: Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale", The New Yorker, vol. 84, no. 40, pp. 90–96, retrieved 9 July 2011.
  • Hodgart, M. J. C. (1962), Samuel Johnson, London: Batsford "Makers of Britain" series
  • Johnson, Samuel (1952), Chapman, R. W. (ed.), Letters, Oxford: Clarendon, ISBN 0-19-818538-3
  • Johnson, Samuel (1968), Bate, W. Jackson (ed.), Selected Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler, New Haven - London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-00016-0
  • Johnson, Samuel (2000), Greene, Donald (ed.), Major Works, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-284042-8
  • Johnston, Freya, "I'm Coming, My Tetsie!" (review of Samuel Johnson, edited by David Womersley, Oxford, 2018, ISBN 978 0 19 960951 2, 1,344 pp.), London Review of Books, vol. 41, no. 9 (9 May 2019), pp. 17–19. ""His attacks on [the pursuit of originality in the writing of literature] were born of the conviction that literature ought to deal in universal truths; that human nature was fundamentally the same in every time and every place; and that, accordingly (as he put it in the 'Life of Dryden'), 'whatever can happen to man has happened so often that little remains for fancy or invention.'" (p. 19).
  • Leavis, F. R. (1944), "Johnson as Critic", Scrutiny, 12: 187–204
  • Raleigh, Walter (1907), Samuel Johnson: the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered in the Senate House Cambridge 22 February 1907, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Wikidata Q107337202
  • Stephen, Leslie (1898), "Johnsoniana", Studies of a Biographer, vol. 1, London: Duckworth and Co., pp. 105–146
  • Uglow, Jenny, "Big Talkers" (review of Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, Yale University Press, 473 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVI, no. 9 (23 May 2019), pp. 26–28.

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