Samuel Johnson and the vocation of the author by Hitchens, D

“…<p>Much has been written about Samuel Johnson as a Christian, and much about him as an author; this study is about where the two meet, in the idea of the literary vocation. …”

Samuel Johnson and the “shackles of lexicography” by Mugglestone, L

Enchaining syllables and lashing the wind: Samuel Johnson, Thomas Sheridan, and the ascertainment of spoken English by Mugglestone, L

Conflicted representations: language, lexicography, and Johnson’s “langscape” of war by Mugglestone, L

“…Books, as Samuel Johnson stated in 1754 in his Dictionary of the English Language neared completion, always exert “a secret influence on the understanding” so that the reader is informed in both overt and covert ways. …”

Samuel who? The meeting which never took place by Casanova, I

“…While certainty is impossible, this paper holds that the very few 18th century and even the 19th century Portuguese lexicographers were not aware of the work of Samuel Johnson. In fact, Portuguese traditions of those times led interest to focus on the French and Italian cultures. …”

The poetic uses of Linnaean taxonomy from Erasmus Darwin to John Clare by Edwall, C

“…By contrast, this thesis argues that Linnaeus often looked at the natural world through a poetic lens, and that works such as his Philosophia botanica (1751) pay close attention to questions of language, an attention magnified by translations such as the Lichfield Botanic Society’s System of Vegetables (1783-5), which boasted Samuel Johnson as a consultant. Among the Lichfield Botanic Society’s three members was Erasmus Darwin, who produced the first thoroughly Linnaean poem, The Loves of the Plants (1789). …”

Seriously funny: James Merrill's puns by McAlpine, E

“…‘Ask for me tomorrow’, says Mercutio, bleeding to death, ‘and you shall find me a grave man’ (Romeo and Juliet III. i. 93-4).3 Samuel Johnson registered Shakespeare’s ubiquitous ‘quibbles’ as defects while still admiring his gall: ‘A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it’.4 But for others, including the dying Keats, puns are a weakness worth having. …”

"A hundred visions and revisions": Malone's annotations to Johnson's Dictionary by Iamartino, G

“…<p>Researchers on Samuel Johnson's <em>Dictionary</em> have carefully analysed the lexicographer's methodology and expanded on the technicalities of his compilation, with regard to both the first edition of 1755 and the fourth, revised edition of 1773. …”

English literature in Latin translation, 1580-1750 by Mennis, K

“…It discusses Latin translations of Chaucer, Spenser, May, Marvell, Fletcher, Milton, Dryden, and Pope, by translators including Richard Fanshawe, Christopher Smart and Samuel Johnson. </p> <p>In this period, Latin was not only a language of the past composed of fragments of ancient texts and history; it was also a living lingua franca, imagined by these translators to be the language of futurity. …”

Scepticism at sea: Herman Melville and philosophical doubt by Evans, D, David Evans

“…In so doing he makes a substantive contribution to a philosophical discourse that has often been criticised – by commentators including Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Swift – for its tendency to abstraction.…”

Romantic posthumous life writing: inter-stitching genres and forms of mourning and commemoration by Chiou, T

“…The second part of the chapter turns to the tangled histories of epitaph, biography, portraiture, sepulchre and elegy in the writings of Samuel Johnson, Henry Kett, Vicesimus Knox, William Godwin and William Wordsworth. …”