Charterhouse:
July 25, 1912.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| [This is a list of books bearing directly upon Boswell whichhave been used for this volume.] | |
|---|---|
| Birrell, A., Introduction to his edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson | London, 1906 |
| Boswell, James: | |
| Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady | 1761 |
| Ode to Tragedy | 1761 |
| Collection of Original Poems, contributions to | 1762 |
| The Cub at Newmarket | 1762 |
| Critical Strictures on Mallet's Elvira, by A. Erskine and J. Boswell | 1763 |
| Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine | 1763 |
| Dorando, a Spanish Tale | 1767 |
| Essence of the Douglas Cause | 1767 |
| Account of Corsica, &c., 2nd edition | 1768 |
| (1st edition was published 1768) | |
| British Essays in favour of the Brave Corsicans | 1769 |
| The Hypochondriack in the London Magazine, Oct. 1777 | to Dec. 1779 |
| Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation | 1783 |
| Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Ed. G. Birkbeck Hill | 1887 |
| (1st edition 1785) | |
| Letter to the People of Scotland against the attempt to diminish the number of the Lords of Session | 1785 |
| No Abolition of Slavery, or the Universal Empire of Love | 1791 |
| Life of Johnson. Ed. Right Hon. John Wilson Croker | 1866 |
| Life of Samuel Johnson. Ed. G. Birkbeck Hill. 6 vols. | Oxford, 1887[1] |
| (1st edition 1791) | |
| Letters to Temple, reprint | London, 1908[1] |
| —— Life of, see Rogers, Fitzgerald, and Leask. | |
| Boswelliana, the Commonplace Book of James Boswell, | London, Grampian Club, 1876 |
| Burke, Edmund, Correspondence | London, 1824 |
| Burney, Miss, see D'Arblay. | |
| Campbell, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Diary | London, 1854 |
| Carlyle, Miscellanies | London, 1872 |
| Chatham, Earl of, Correspondence. 4 vols. | London, 1838 |
| Collection of Original Poems | Edinburgh, 1763 |
| Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, Correspondence and Diaries. 3 vols. | London, 1884 |
| D'Arblay, Diary of Madame. Ed. Austin Dobson. 6 vols. | London, 1904 |
| —— Memoirs of Dr. Burney. 3 vols. | London, 1832 |
| Edinburgh, Traditions of | 1869 |
| Eldon, Lord Chancellor, Life of, by Horace Twiss. 3 vols. | London, 1844 |
| Fitzgerald, Percy, Life of Boswell | London, 1891 |
| Forbes, Sir William, Life of James Beattie | London, 1806 |
| Gentleman's Magazine | |
| Goldsmith, Life by James Prior. 2 vols. | London, 1837 |
| Gray, Life by Mason. 2 vols. | London, 1807 |
| Hawkins, Sir John, Life of Johnson | London, 1787 |
| —— Lætitia Matilda, Memoirs. 2 vols. | London, 1824 |
| Henley, W. E., Views and Reviews | London, 1902 |
| Hill, Dr. George Birkbeck, Life of Johnson. 6 vols. | Oxford, 1887 |
| —— Dr. Johnson, his Friends and Critics | London, 1878 |
| See also Johnson Club Papers. | |
| Holcroft, Thomas, Memoirs. 3 vols. | London, 1816 |
| Hume, David, Correspondence | London, 1846 |
| Ireland, S. W. H., The Confessions of W. H. Ireland | London, 1805 |
| Johnson, Dr. Samuel, Dictionary | London, 1755 |
| —— Lives of the Poets | London, 1781 |
| —— Journey to the Western Islands | London, 1775 |
| Johnson, Lionel, Post Liminium, Critical Essays | London, 1911 |
| Johnson Club Papers, by various hands | London, 1899 |
| Leask, W. K., James Boswell, Famous Scots Series. | Edinburgh, 1896 |
| London Magazine | |
| Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays. 3 vols. | London, 1843 |
| Malone, Life of, Prior | London, 1860 |
| More, Hannah, Memoirs of. 4 vols. | London, 1834 |
| Nichols, John, Literary Anecdotes of the XVIIIth Century. 9 vols. | London, 1812-15 |
| —— Literary History of the XVIIIth Century. 8 vols. | London, 1817-58 |
| Piozzi, Mrs., Autobiography. 2 vols. | London, 1861 |
| —— Johnson's Letters to. 2 vols. | London, 1788 |
| —— Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, 2nd edition | London, 1789 |
| Raleigh, Sir Walter, Six Essays on Johnson | Oxford, 1910 |
| Reynolds, Sir Joshua, Life by Leslie and Taylor. 2 vols. | London, 1865 |
| Rogers, Rev. Charles, Memoir of Boswell, in Boswelliana | |
| Taylor, John, Records of My Life | London, 1832 |
| Trevelyan, Sir G. O., Life of Fox | London, 1912 |
| Walpole, Horace, Letters. 9 vols. | London, 1861 |
[1:] All references are to this edition.
BOSWELL THE BIOGRAPHER
CHAPTER I
Boswell's 'Life of Johnson' is, as we all know, a unique biography; it has no rival. Its unchallenged supremacy has a special significance from the position which Johnson himself retains in literature. For as it must be admitted that his work has been but little read since his own day, and that by far his greatest performance, the compiling of a dictionary, has in its nature nothing of an artistic appeal, it may well be supposed that the literary men of this age find more to stir the imagination in the lives of the great figures of the nineteenth century, in the romance of Byron, Shelley, Keats, and at a later date of the Pre-Raphaelite group, in the peculiar simplicity of Wordsworth, the splendour of Tennyson, and the fervid passion of Browning. And yet we have for Johnson a more intimate place which is all his own.