Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offering readers a

A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.

This wide-ranging volume examines the theoretical and scholarly contexts of Johnson’s work as a lexicographer, moralist, poet, political commentator, sermon w

Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet,

The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist