AuthorHilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900-
TitleNew light on Dr. Johnson : essays on the occasion of his 250th birthday / edited by Frederick W. Hilles
Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, 1959
Descript xii, 348 p. : port., facsims. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

The young waterman / Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis -- Johnson's poems / David Nichol Smith -- Johnson's practice in the poetical imitation / John Butt -- Johnson and Juvenal / Mary Lascelles -- Johnson at Drury Lane / Robert F. Metzdorf -- Johnson's dictionary / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. -- Johnson's "Dissertation on flying" / Gwin J. Kolb -- Dr. Franklin meets Dr. Johnson / Maurice J. Quinlan -- A biographer looks at Dr. Johnson / James L. Clifford -- Dr. Johnson's second wife / Donald and Mary Hyde -- The dark hints of Sir John Hawkins and Boswell / Frederick A. Pottle -- Dr. Johnson as bibliographer and book collector / E.L. McAdam, Jr. -- Dr. Johnson's spectacles / M.H. Abrams -- Personification reconsidered / Bertrand H. Bronson -- "We fell upon Sir Eldred" / Herman W. Liebert -- Johnson and intellectual history / William R. Keast -- The making of The life of Pope / Frederick W. Hilles -- Johnson in parody / S.C. Roberts -- Dr. Johnson and the contrary converts / James M. Osborn -- Dr. Johnson and the young Burneys / Joyce Hemlow


SUBJECT

  1. Johnson
  2. Samuel
  3. 1709-1784

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