Author:Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Biography, Criticism, Lexicography, Prose

 * Life of Richard Savage (1727)
 * A Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage from the malicious and scandalous aspersions of Mr. Brooke. By an Impartial Hand (1739) (anon.)
 * A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
 * The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), in 2 vols.
 * The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
 * Preface
 * A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)
 * The Works of the English Poets (1779)
 * Biographical History of the English Poets
 * Character of Swift's Writings (c. 1779-1781)
 * The Modern Traveller (1776) external link
 * The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1794 corrected edition)

Essays, Pamphlets, Periodicals

 * A History and Defence of Magna Charta (1769)
 * Marmor Norfolciense, Or, An Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription, in Monkish Rhyme (1775)
 * An essay concerning parliaments at a certainty; or, The of May (1693)
 * The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language (1747)
 * The Rambler (1759).
 * The Idler (1767) -
 * Adventurer external link
 * Political tracts (1776), containing:
 * The False Alarm
 * Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands
 * The Patriot
 * Taxation no Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress

Translations

 * A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735), by Father Jerome Lobo

Letters

 * Letter to Lord Chesterfield

Poetry

 * London (1738)
 * Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane
 * The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)
 * Irene, a Tragedy (1749)
 * The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson (1805)

Works about Johnson

 * Life of Johnson, by James Boswell
 * 1904 Edition
 * Volume 1
 * Volume 2
 * Volume 3
 * Volume 4
 * Volume 5
 * Volume 6
 * A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson, by H. P. Lovecraft
 * Samuel Johnson (1878), by Leslie Stephen
 * An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson (1792), by Arthur Murphy,
 * "Johnsoniana" in Studies of a Biographer (1898) by Leslie Stephen
 * "Samuel Johnson" in Essays and Addresses (1907) by Richard Claverhouse Jebb
 * Samuel Johnson: the Leslie Stephen lecture (1907), a lecture by Walter Alexander Raleigh
 * Six Essays on Johnson, by Sir Walter Raleigh (1910)
 * (with footnote and afterword by Thomas Seccombe)
 * Six Essays on Johnson, by Sir Walter Raleigh (1910)
 * (with footnote and afterword by Thomas Seccombe)
 * Six Essays on Johnson, by Sir Walter Raleigh (1910)
 * (with footnote and afterword by Thomas Seccombe)

On his works

 * “Dr. Johnson’s ‘Lives of the Poets’,” in the Quarterly Review, 208 (1908)

Transcription projects

 * Johnsonian Miscellanies
 * Volume 1
 * Volume 2
 * Volume 2 - back matter
 * Footsteps of Dr. Johnson
 * A critical examination of Dr G Birkbeck Hills "Johnsonian" Editions