The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Samuel Johnson, John Ha... - 9781108031776

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets\nAuthor(s): Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108031776, 978-1108031776\nSynopsis\nDr Samuel Johnson [tel] is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works - commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity - was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 7 contains the final part of The Rambler, the periodical published by Johnson twice a week between 1750 and 1752. Modelled on Addison's Spectator, the essays address a wide range of social, religious, political and literary themes, and are not exclusively by Johnson himself: there are con.