The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 10

Public and private morality as focus in writings of Samuel Johnson Given Samuel Johnsons lifelong concern with problems of human morality, it is not surprisingin an age when such writers as Defoe, Swift, Pope, Goldsmith, and Burke were highly politically consciousto find Johnson frequently turning to matters of both public and private morality. Donald J. Greene presents a collection of Johnsons writings with a political emphasis: his early anti-Walpolian pamphlets Marmor Norfolciense and A Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, and various journalistic squibs; an abridgment of the debate on the offer of the Crown to Oliver Cromwell; the articles on the Seven Years War and related matters, such as the notorious trial and execution of Admiral Byng; and the four pamphlets of the 1770sThe False Alarm, Thoughts on . . . Falklands Islands, The Patriot, and Taxation No Tyranny. An introduction addresses Johnsons politics, and full annotation provides historical context.