Abbreviations

Except where indicated, parenthetical references throughout are to the following works. Other references are given in notes to each chapter.

The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed. John H. Middendorf et al. (New Haven, ct, and London: Yale University Press, 1958–2018)

Works I: Diaries, Prayers, and Annals, ed. E. L. McAdam, Jr., with Donald and Mary Hyde (1958)
Works II: The Idler and the Adventurer, ed. W. J. Bate, John M. Bullitt, and L. F. Powell (1963)
Works III–V: The Rambler, ed. W. J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss (1969)
Works VI: Poems, ed. E. L. McAdam, Jr., with George Milne (1964)
Works VII–VIII: Johnson on Shakespeare, ed. Arthur Sherbo, with an Introduction by Bernard H. Bronson (1968)
Works X: Political Writings, ed. Donald J. Greene (1977)
Works XI–XIII: Debates in Parliament, ed. Thomas Kaminski and Benjamin Beard Hoover (2012)
Works XVI: Rasselas and Other Tales, ed. Gwin J. Kolb (1990)
Works XVII: A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, or, Essay on Man, ed. O M Brack, Jr. (2004)
Works XVIII: Johnson on the English Language, ed. Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr. (2005)
Works XIX: Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends, ed. O M Brack, Jr., and Robert DeMaria, Jr. (2016)
Works XX: Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings, ed. O M Brack, Jr., and Robert DeMaria, Jr. (2018)
Works XXI–XXIII: The Lives of the Poets, ed. John H. Middendorf et al. (2010)

Other Publications

AJ: The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual
Boswell: Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD., ed. G. B. Hill, rev. and enlarged by L. F. Powell, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934–50)
CQ: The Cambridge Quarterly
Dictionary: Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (London, 1755)
JNL: The Johnsonian News Letter
Letters: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, ed. Bruce Redford, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992–94)
Lives: Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, ed. Roger Lonsdale, 4 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006)
TLS: Times Literary Supplement
Warton’s History: Thomas Warton’s History of English Poetry, with introduction by David Fairer, 4 vols. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998)