Macaulay’s 1856 biographical sketch of Samuel Johnson follows him from Lichfield poverty through Grub Street, the Dictionary, the Club and the Lives of the Poets. This edition adds part of Macaulay’s earlier essay on Croker’s edition of Boswell, with an introduction to Macaulay himself and notes.
A vivid short life of Johnson by one of the most readable of Victorian historians. Download the free EPUB.