The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on their Work. With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Lonsdale.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (2006). First edition edited by Roger Lonsdale. The definitive edition of Johnson's famous Lives of the English Poets, issued 225 years after its original publication. This edition, edited by 18th century English literature scholar Roger Lonsdale, has been celebrated as a great achievement in textual scholarship in.....