Book Description
This edition of Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson is unusually full of explanatory notes and illustrative material. Next to the study of Macaulay, the study of Johnson's remarkable life and commanding position in the history of English literature is of great importance. For this purpose, in addition to much matter in the notes taken from Johnson's Works and Boswell's Life, there has been added an appendix containing selections from the more interesting parts of Macaulay's Essay on Croker's Boswell (1831) and Carlyle's Essay on Boswell's Johnson (1832), together with an extract from Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. The proofs of the Life in this edition were corrected by Macaulay himself.