Journals:

Age of Johnson. Click here to learn more.

Johnsonian News Letter. Click here to learn more.

   Click here to view and download all available scans of the Johnsonian News Letter.

New Rambler. Click here to learn more.

Electronic Resources:

Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO). Click here to learn more.

A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM. Ed. Anne McDermott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Samuel Johnson's Will.

Snippets from Johnson’s Dictionary. Click here to learn more.

A Dictionary of the English Language: A Digital Edition of the 1755 Classic by Samuel Johnson

The Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Johnson and Early Modern Books and Manuscripts. Click here to read more.

Books:

Johnson’s Writings

Fleeman, J. D. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Fleeman, J. D. (ed.). A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.

Hazen, Allen T. Samuel Johnson’s Prefaces and Dedications. New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Oxford University Press, 1937.

Lonsdale, Roger (ed.). The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.

Redford, Bruce (ed.). The Letters of Samuel Johnson. 5 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982-84.

Biographical Studies of Johnson

Bate, W. J. Samuel Johnson. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

Boswell, James. Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill and L. F. Powell. 6 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934–1964.

Clifford, James. Dictionary Johnson: The Middle Years of Samuel Johnson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.

Clifford, James. Young Sam Johnson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.

DeMaria, Robert, Jr. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Hawkins, Sir John. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Ed. O M Brack, Jr. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2009.

Reade, Aleyn Lyell. Johnsonian Gleanings. 11 vols. London: Francis, 1909-52.

Interpretive Studies

DeMaria, Robert, Jr. Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning. Chapel Hill, NC and Oxford: University of North Carolina Press and Clarendon
Press, 1986.

Fussell, Paul. Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich: 1971.

Greene, Donald. The Politics of Samuel Johnson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.

Grundy, Isobel. Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Kernan, Alvin. Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print. 1987. Rev. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Lipking, Lawrence. Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Wimsatt, William K. Philosophic Words. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948.