Samuel Johnson in Perspective

Preface and Acknowledgements

A Note on Major Editions Cited and Short Titles

Introduction: ‘Johnson Studies’ and the Common Reader
PHILIP SMALLWOOD

PART 1: Poetry and the Criticism of Poetry

1 ‘Perpetually a Poet’: Johnson’s Poetry in Verse and Prose
PHILIP SMALLWOOD

2 ‘Pointed Axioms and Acute Replies’: The Fascination of Johnson’s Overlooked ‘Lives’
ADAM ROUNCE

3 Richard Hurd’s Select Works of Cowley (1772) and Johnson’s Art of Selection
MICHAEL EDSON

4 Johnson’s Dryden
DAVID HOPKINS

5 ‘Prior Is Never Low, Nor Very Often Sublime’: Matthew Prior, Johnson, and Hard Work versus Inspiration
CONRAD BRUNSTRÖM

6 ‘Splendid Amplifications’: Johnson’s ‘Life of Pope’
IAN CALVERT

PART 2: Cultural Relations

7 Athwart the Enlightenment: Samuel Johnson’s Philosophical and Intellectual Engagements
FRANS DE BRUYN

8 ‘Poor Bear’: Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard’s Dr. Johnson
GREG CLINGHAM

9 ‘I Smell You in the Dark’: Johnson, Orange Peel and the Art of Biography
KATE CHISHOLM

10 Johnson and the Definition of Silence
ANTHONY HOWE

11 Boswell’s Authority as Reader and Critic of Johnson’s Works
PAUL TANKARD

12 Johnson and the Victorians
PHIL JONES

13 Old House, New Views: A Curator’s Perspective
CELINE LUPPO MCDAID