Doctor Johnson and Others

This 1958 book contains essays on various men of literature, including Doctor Johnson, Pepys, Boswell, Max Beerbohm and James Beresford.

First published in 1958, this book contains four essays on various aspects of Johnson's personality and achievement as well as a survey of other men of literature, such as Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, Thomas Fuller, Thomas Grey, James Beresford, Benjamin Wrigglesworth Beatson and Max Beerbohm.First published in 1958, this book contains four essays on various aspects of Johnson's personality and achievement as well as a survey of the work of Thomas Fuller; a comparison of Pepys and Boswell as diarists; a study of Thomas Gray's life in Cambridge; an essay on James Beresford, author of The Miseries of Human Life, a best-seller of 200 years ago; a brief account, based upon an unpublished diary, of B. W. Beatson, an early nineteenth-century don; and, finally, an essay on the 'inimitable' Max Beerbohm, whom Sir Sydney once dared to imitate.