Human Wishes

Irvin Ehrenpreis

  • Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
    Hogarth, 646 pp, £6.95, July 1984, ISBN 0 7012 0562 8
  • A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr Samuel Johnson by J.D. Fleeman
    Oxford Bibliographical Society, 101 pp, £5.00, March 1984, ISBN 0 901420 41 7
  • Samuel Johnson 1709-84: A Bicentenary Exhibition edited by K.K. Yung
    Arts Council/Herbert Press, 144 pp, £9.95, July 1984, ISBN 0 906969 45 X
  • Samuel Johnson by Donald Greene
    Oxford, 872 pp, £15.00, June 1984, ISBN 0 19 254179 X

Johnsonians have been telling us for decades that Boswell makes an unreliable guide to the mind of his mentor. They say that one tastes Johnson’s profundity not in his conversation but in his writing, and above all in the essays on morality. In those works, says W.J. Bate, ‘we have the essence of Johnson.’

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