title: The Lives of the Poets: A Selection (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Samuel Johnson
description: `Review from previous edition 'Although it is hard to find words of sufficient praise for it, this is a great and classic edition' ' Henry Woudhuysen, The New Rambler<br /><br />`'my book of the decade' ' Brian Vickers, TLS<br /><br />`'a marvelous scholarly performance' ' Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books
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  The Complete Works of
  SAMUEL JOHNSON
  (1709-1784)
  Contents
  The Essays and Pamphlets
  A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA
  MARMOR NORFOLCIENSE
  A COMPLEAT VINDICATION OF THE LICENSERS OF THE STAGE
  THE PLAN OF A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  THE RAMBLER
  THE ADVENTURER
  THE IDLER
  THE FALSE ALARM
  THOUGHTS ON THE LATE TRANSACTIONS RESPECTING
  FALKLAND’S ISLANDS
  THE PATRIOT
  TAXATION NO TYRANNY
  A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND
  DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT
  A CONVERSATION BETWEEN HIS MOST SACRED MAJESTY
  GEORGE III AND SAMUEL JOHNSON LID
  MISCELLANEOUS PAMPHLETS, REVIEWS AND ESSAYS
  PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS
  The Novella
  
  THE PRINCE OF ABISSINIA: A TALE
  The Dictionary
  PREFACE TO A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  SELECTED DICTIONARY ENTRIES
  The Biographies
  AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF MR RICHARD SAVAGE
  THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS
  THE LIVES OF EMINENT MEN
  The Literary Criticism
  MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRAGEDY OF
  MACBETH
  PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF
  WILLIAM SHA