The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Johnson Hawkins Paperback Volume 11

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: 9781108031813, 978-1108031813\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 11 contains poetry in English and Latin, prayers, and a variety of literary forms - a fantasy, The Vision of Theodore, Johnson's only play, Irene, Rasselas, which uses an oriental tale and a French form to meditate on the folly of the quest for human happiness, and The Vanity of Human Wis.