Samuel Johnson, and his disgrace to English literature

by Percival Stockdale

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Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1988. Edition ltd. to 275 copies, folio, pp. 8 ; fine in original printed gray wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. The introduction is by Howard D. Weinbrot. Extracted from Stockdale's Lectures on the Truly Eminent English Poets 2 vols., 1807 and written to counteract Johnson's apparently mean-spirited attacks on great English poets. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 91. Item #61640

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