Six essays on Johnson

Six essays on Johnson – is a book written by Walter Alexander Raleigh, an English scholar, author, poet and published in 1910. Samuel Johnson was an English literary critic, lexicographer and poet of the Enlightenment, whose name, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, has become synonymous in the English-speaking world in the second half of the 18th century. This collection of essays is full of observations that seem too obvious in large part because Walter Raleigh made them. Walter Raleigh's prose style is elegant but straightforward. This book consists of lectures and essays such as: Samuel Johnson: The Leslie Stephen Lecture, delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, February 22, 1907; On the two-hundredth anniversary of Johnson's Birth; Johnson without Boswell; Johnson on Shakespeare; Early Lives of the Poets; Johnson's Lives of the Poets.