The Major Works
By: Samuel Johnson; edited with an introduction and notes by Donald Greene
Contributors: Greene, Donald Johnson.
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 880
ISBN-13: 9780199538331
Copyright date: 1984
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, -- 1709-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Selections.
First sentence: One reason why Samuel Johnson, more that any other major figure of English literature, is better known as a 'personality' than as the great writer he was has been the difficulty of access to the large and varied canon of his writings.
Notes: First published, with revisions, as an Oxford world's classics paperback: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [793]-832) and indexes.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
pagenum: xi; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: xxvi; label: Chronology
pagenum: xxix; label: Note on the Text
pagenum: xxxi; label: POETRY; title: Translation of Horace, Odes, ii. 20 (1726)
pagenum: 1; title: London (1738)
pagenum: 2; title: Prologue to Garrick's Lethe (1740)
pagenum: 8; title: Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician (1740)
pagenum: 9; title: On Colley Cibber (1741?)
pagenum: 9; title: To Miss ——— On Her Playing Upon the Harpsichord (1746)
pagenum: 9; title: Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane (1747)
pagenum: 10; title: The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)
pagenum: 12; title: Irene (Act II, Scene vii) (1749)
pagenum: 21; title: Prologue to Milton's Comus (1750)
pagenum: 24; title: Verses for Baretti (1750s?)
pagenum: 25; title: Parodies of Modern Ballad Imitations (1770s?)
pagenum: 25; title: Impromptu Translation of Benserade's 'Verses à son lit' (1770s?)
pagenum: 26; title: Epitaph on Hogarth (1771)
pagenum: 26; title: ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ (Know Thyself) (1772)
pagenum: 26; title: Skia (Skye) (1773)
pagenum: 30; title: To Mrs Thrale on Her Completing Her Thirty-Fifth Year (1776)
pagenum: 31; title: Lines in Hawkesworth's The Rival (1776?)
pagenum: 32; title: On Archaism in Poetry (1777)
pagenum: 32; title: Parody of Thomas Warton (1777)
pagenum: 32; title: Prologue to Kelly's A Word to the Wise (1777)
pagenum: 33; title: An Extempore Elegy (1777)
pagenum: 33; title: To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age (1780)
pagenum: 34; title: On the Death of Dr Robert Levet (1783)
pagenum: 35; title: In Rivum a Mola Stoana Lichfeldiae Diffluentem (By the River, at Stowe Mill, Lichfield) (1784)
pagenum: 36; title: Translation of Horace, Odes, iv. 7 (1784)
pagenum: 37; label: EARLY PROSE; title: A Latin School Exercise (1725?)
pagenum: 39; title: Preface to Lobo, A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735)
pagenum: 41; title: The State of Affairs in Lilliput (1738)
pagenum: 44; title: On Gay's Epitaph (1738)
pagenum: 51; title: The Life of Dr Herman Boerhaave (1739)
pagenum: 54; title: A Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage (1739)
pagenum: 71; title: Annotation to Crousaz, Commentary on Pope's Essay on Man (1739)
pagenum: 84; title: An Essay on Epitaphs (1740)
pagenum: 96; title: Debates in the Senate of Lilliput (1741)
pagenum: 103; title: Review of Memoirs of the Duchess Dowager of Marlborough (1742)
pagenum: 113; title: An Account of Harleian Library (1743)
pagenum: 117; title: Proposals for the Harleian Miscellany (1743)
pagenum: 120; title: Introduction to the Harleian Miscellany (On the Origin and Importance of Small Tracts and Fugitive Pieces) (1744)
pagenum: 122; title: The Life of Richard Savage (1744)
pagenum: 128; title: The Vision of Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe (1748)
pagenum: 165; label: PERIODICAL ESSAYS; title: The Rambler, no. 4 [The New Realistic Novel] (1750)
pagenum: 175; title: The Rambler, no. 18 [Marriage (1)] (1750)
pagenum: 179; title: The Rambler, no. 23 [The Rambler and His Critics] (1750)
pagenum: 183; title: The Rambler, no. 32 [Stoicism] (1750)
pagenum: 186; title: The Rambler, no. 36 [Pastoral Poetry (1)] (1750)
pagenum: 190; title: The Rambler, no. 37 [Pastoral Poetry (2)] (1750)
pagenum: 193; title: The Rambler, no. 39 [Marriage (2)] (1750)
pagenum: 197; title: The Rambler, no. 47 [Sorrow] (1750)
pagenum: 200; title: The Rambler, no. 60 [Biography] (1750)
pagenum: 204; title: The Rambler, no. 113 [Marriage (3)] (1751)
pagenum: 207; title: The Rambler, no. 114 [Capital Punishment] (1751)
pagenum: 211; title: The Rambler, no. 121 [Literary Imitation] (1751)
pagenum: 215; title: The Rambler, no. 129 [The Need for Enterprise] (1751)
pagenum: 219; title: The Rambler, no. 137 [The Need for General Knowledge] (1751)
pagenum: 222; title: The Rambler, no. 142 [A Rural Tyrant] (1751)
pagenum: 225; title: The Rambler, no. 145 [Journalists]
pagenum: 229; title: The Rambler, no. 148 [Parental Tyranny] (1751)
pagenum: 232; title: The Rambler, no. 156 ['Rules' of Writing] (1751)
pagenum: 235; title: The Rambler, no. 161 [A Rooming-House Chronicle] (1751)
pagenum: 239; title: The Rambler, no. 167 [Marriage (4)] (1751)
pagenum: 243; title: The Rambler, no. 168 [Congruent Diction] (1751)
pagenum: 246; title: The Rambler, no. 170 [A Prostitute's Story (1)] (1751)
pagenum: 249; title: The Rambler, no. 171 [A Prostitute's Story (2)] (1751)
pagenum: 253; title: The Rambler, no. 191 [An Astute Young Lady] (1752)
pagenum: 257; title: The Adventurer, no. 67 [The Benefits of Human Society] (1753)
pagenum: 261; title: The Adventurer, no. 84 [Vanity in a Stage Coach] (1753)
pagenum: 265; title: The Adventurer, no. 85 [The Role of the Scholar] (1753)
pagenum: 269; title: The Adventurer, no. 99 ['Projectors', Successful and Unsuccessful] (1753)
pagenum: 273; title: The Idler, no. 5 [A Female Army] (1758)
pagenum: 277; title: The Idler, no. 10 [Political Partisanship] (1758)
pagenum: 279; title: The Idler, no. 22 (original numbering) [The Vultures' View of Man] (1758)
pagenum: 282; title: The Idler, no. 22 (revised numbering) [23] [Debtors' Prisons (1)] (1758)
pagenum: 285; title: The Idler, no. 38 [39] [Debtors' Prisons (2)] (1759)
pagenum: 287; title: The Idler, no. 60 [61] [How to Become a Critic (1)] (1759)
pagenum: 290; title: The Idler, no. 61 [62] [How to Become a Critic (2)] (1759)
pagenum: 293; title: The Idler, no. 81 [82] [European Oppression in America] (1759)
pagenum: 296; title: The Idler, no. 84 [85] [Autobiography] (1759)
pagenum: 298; title: The Idler, no. 88 [89] [Limitations of Human Achievement] (1759)
pagenum: 300; title: The Idler, no. 100 [101] [A Good Sort of Woman] (1760)
pagenum: 302; title: The Idler, no. 103 [104] ['This Is the Last'] (1760)
pagenum: 304; label: A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1755); title: Preface
pagenum: 307; title: Specimen Entries
pagenum: 329; label: THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS (1759); title: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
pagenum: 335; label: THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1765); title: Preface
pagenum: 419; title: Specimen of Annotation
pagenum: 457; title: Concluding Notes
pagenum: 462; label: LATER PROSE; title: Sermon 5 (date?)
pagenum: 467; title: The Life of Dr Francis Cheynel (1751)
pagenum: 476; title: Review of Joseph Warton, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (1756)
pagenum: 488; title: Review of Thomas Blackwell, Memoirs of the Court of Augustus (1756)
pagenum: 495; title: Observations on the Present State of Affairs (1756)
pagenum: 501; title: Review of [Jonas Hanway], A Journal of Eight Days' Journey . . . and An Essay on Tea (1757)
pagenum: 509; title: Reply to a Paper in the Gazetter of May 26, 1757
pagenum: 517; title: Review of [Soame Jenys], A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1757)
pagenum: 522; title: Of the Duty of a Journalist (1758)
pagenum: 544; title: Introduction to Proceedings of the Committee . . . for Clothing French Prisoners of War (1759)
pagenum: 547; title: The Bravery of English Common Soldiers (1760)
pagenum: 549; title: Review of [William Tytler], An Historical and Critical Enquiry into . . . Mary, Queen of Scots (1760)
pagenum: 551; title: The Fountains: A Fairy Tale (1776)
pagenum: 558; title: Robert Chambers's Vinerian Lectures on the English Law: Part II, Lecture I Of Criminal Law . . . and the Nature of Punishments (1767)
pagenum: 570; title: The Patriot. Addressed to the Electors of Great Britain (1774)
pagenum: 580; title: Preface to Thomas Maurice, Poems . . . with a Free Translation of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles (1779)
pagenum: 588; title: Dedication of Charles Burney, An Account . . . in Commemoration of Handel (1784)
pagenum: 591; label: A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND (1775); title: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
pagenum: 593; label: PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, TO THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS; title: Addison (1781)
pagenum: 643; title: Cowley (1779)
pagenum: 677; title: Milton (1779)
pagenum: 698; title: Dryden (1779)
pagenum: 717; title: Pope (1781)
pagenum: 725; title: Thomson (1781)
pagenum: 753; title: Watts (1781)
pagenum: 755; title: Collins (1781)
pagenum: 759; title: Young (1781)
pagenum: 762; title: Gray (1781)
pagenum: 765; label: DIARIES AND LETTERS; title: Selections
pagenum: 771; label: Notes
pagenum: 793; label: Further Reading
pagenum: 833; label: Indexes; title: Poetry: Titles and First Lines
pagenum: 837; title: Prose
pagenum: 838; title: Recipients of Letters
pagenum: 840