Designed to complement DeMaria's textbook British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology , this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixteen contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology.

This concise collection of poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age.

• Provides readers with authoritative texts of key poems from 1660-1789.
  
• Focuses on those works most widely taught at schools and universities.
  
• Offers students an accessible digest of the poetry of the period.
  
• Demonstrates the range of poetry written between the restoration of the monarchy and the beginnings of the Romantic movement.

Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major themes of the book: knowledge and ignorance, truth and probabiity, learning and education, language, religion, and morality. Johnson's choice of which quotations to include represents his vision of the intellectual landscape.

This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.

• Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
  
• Divided into two halves - the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
  
• Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.

This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.

• Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
  
• Divided into two halves - the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
  
• Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.

In this major revision of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Robert DeMaria makes a compelling claim for the attention of a new generation of Johnson's readers and admirers.

Designed to complement DeMaria's textbook British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology , this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixteen contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology.