The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 18

Johnson on the English Language

by Samuel Johnson

Edited by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria

Series: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson

560 Pages, 6.12 x 9.25 in

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9780300106725
Published: Tuesday, 22 Nov 2005

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Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was a poet, essayist, biographer, and editor. Gwin J. Kolb is Chester D. Tripp Professor Emeritus in Humanities, University of Chicago. Robert DeMaria, Jr., is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College.

“Thanks . . . to the consummate and consummating editors of Johnson on the English Language: Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr. Their cooperation—with one another and with Johnson—is magnificent. Their erudition is immense and yet measured, deep and yet crystalline.”—Christopher Ricks, New Criterion

“The latest superb volume of the Yale edition of [Johnson’s] works.”—Eric Ormsby, New York Sun

“Since these writings are never again likely to be critically edited, it is fortunate they fell in to such capable hands; two editors who, in an imperfect world, have reached a high level of perfection, and prepared a model edition likely to stand the test of time.”—O. M. Brack, Jr., Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

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