Samuel Johnson (1709-84)A selective list of online literary criticism for the eighteenth-century English essayist, playwright, novelist, biographer, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in reviewed sources Main Page | 18th-Century Writers | About LiteraryHistory.com Literary CriticismSmallwood, 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 The Beinecke Library at Yale is scanning and putting online their manuscripts of James Boswell's Life of Johnson and other Boswell papers Information about the major Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson at Harvard's Houghton Library which includes letters, manuscripts, first editions, and portraits. The Johnson Society of the Central Region The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Web site for the scholarly journal. Main Page | 18th-Century British Literature | About LiteraryHistory.com 1998-2010 by LiteraryHistory.com |