New light on Dr. Johnson
Subtitle: essays on the occasion of his 250th birthday.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: The young waterman / Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis; title: Johnson's poems / David Nichol Smith; title: Johnson's practice in the poetical imitation / John Butt; title: Johnson and Juvenal / Mary Lascelles; title: Johnson at Drury Lane / Robert F. Metzdorf; title: Johnson's dictionary / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr.; title: Johnson's "Dissertation on flying" / Gwin J. Kolb; title: Dr. Franklin meets Dr. Johnson / Maurice J. Quinlan; title: A biographer looks at Dr. Johnson / James L. Clifford; title: Dr. Johnson's second wife / Donald and Mary Hyde; title: The dark hints of Sir John Hawkins and Boswell / Frederick A. Pottle; title: Dr. Johnson as bibliographer and book collector / E.L. McAdam, Jr.; title: Dr. Johnson's spectacles / M.H. Abrams; title: Personification reconsidered / Bertrand H. Bronson; title: "We fell upon Sir Eldred" / Herman W. Liebert; title: Johnson and intellectual history / William R. Keast; title: The making of The life of Pope / Frederick W. Hilles; title: Johnson in parody / S.C. Roberts; title: Dr. Johnson and the contrary converts / James M. Osborn; title: Dr. Johnson and the young Burneys / Joyce Hemlow.