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- Mary Hyde, "'Not in Chapman,'" in Johnson, Boswell and Their Circle: Essays Presented to Lawrence Fitzroy Powell, edited by Mary M. Lascelles and others (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), pp. 286-319.
- William P. Courtney and D. Nichol Smith, A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915).
- Robert William Chapman and Allen T. Hazen, "Johnsonian Bibliography: A Supplement to Courtney," in Proceedings of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 5 (1939): 119-166.
- James L. Clifford and Donald J. Greene, Samuel Johnson: A Survey and Bibliography of Critical Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970).
- Donald Greene and John A. Vance, A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1970-1985, ELS Monograph Series, no. 39 (Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, 1987).
- James Harrison, Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson (London, 1786).
- Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1786).
- John Hawkins, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London: Printed for J. Buckland, 1787); republished as The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt., edited and abridged by Bertram H. Davis (New York: Macmillan, 1961).
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791); republished as Boswell's Life of Johnson, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, revised and enlarged by Lawrence F. Powell, 6 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1950).
- James L. Clifford, Young Sam Johnson (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955).
- O. M. Brack, Jr., and Robert E. Kelley, The Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1974).
- W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977).
- Clifford, Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979).
- W. Jackson Bate, "Johnson and Satire Manqué," in Eighteenth Century Studies Presented in Memory of Donald F. Hyde, edited by W. H. Bond (New York: Grolier Club, 1970), pp. 145-160.
- Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, "Johnson's London and its Juvenalian Texts," and "Johnson's London and the Tools of Scholarship," Huntington Library Quarterly, 34 (1970-1971): 1-23, 115-139.
- Bertrand H. Bronson, "Johnson's 'Irene,'" in his Johnson Agonistes and Other Essays (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1945), pp. 100-155.
- John Butt, "Pope and Johnson in Their Handling of the Imitation," New Rambler (June 1959): 3-14; reprinted as "Johnson's Practice in the Poetical Imitation," in New Light on Dr. Johnson: Essays on the Occasion of His 250th Birthday, edited by Frederick W. Hilles (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959), pp. 19-34.
- William Edinger, Samuel Johnson and Poetic Style (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977).
- T. S. Eliot, "Johnson as Critic and Poet," in his On Poetry and Poets (New York: Noonday Press, 1961), pp. 184-222.
- Eliot, Preface to London: A Poem and The Vanity of Human Wishes (London: Etchells & Macdonald, 1930); reprinted in English Critical Essays: Twentieth Century, edited by Phyllis M. Jones (London: Oxford University Press, 1933), pp. 301-310; reprinted as "Poetry in the Eighteenth Century," in The Pelican Guide to English Literature, 4 (Baltimore: Penguin, 1957), pp. 271-277.
- Macdonald Emslie, "Johnson's Satires and 'The Proper Wit of Poetry,'" Cambridge Journal, 7 (March 1954): 347-360.
- F. W. Hilles, "Johnson's Poetic Fire," in From Sensibility to Romanticism, edited by Hilles and Harold Bloom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), pp. 67-77.
- Ian Jack, "'Tragical Satire': The Vanity of Human Wishes," in his Augustan Satire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952), pp. 135-145.
- Mary Lascelles, "Johnson and Juvenal," in New Light on Dr. Johnson: Essays on the Occasion of His 250th Birthday, pp. 35-55.
- F. R. Leavis, "Johnson as Poet," in his The Common Pursuit (London: Chatto & Windus, 1952; New York: George W. Stewart, 1952), pp. 116-120.
- Helen Harrold Naugle, ed., A Concordance to the Poems of Samuel Johnson (Ithaca, N.Y. & London: Cornell University Press, 1973).
- John E. Sitter, "To The Vanity of Human Wishes through the 1740s," Studies in Philology, 74 (October 1977): 445-464.
- D. Nichol Smith, "The Heroic Couplet—Johnson," in his Some Observations on Eighteenth Century Poetry (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1937), pp. 31-55.
- Smith, "Samuel Johnson's Poems," Review of English Studies, 19 (January 1943): 44-50; reprinted in New Light on Dr. Johnson: Essays on the Occasion of His 250th Birthday, pp. 9-17, and in Samuel Johnson: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Donald J. Greene (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965), pp. 63-69.
- Susie I. Tucker and Henry Gifford, "Johnson's Latin Poetry," Neophilologus, 41 (July 1957): 215-221.
- Tucker and Gifford, "Johnson's Poetic Imagination," Review of English Studies, new series, 8 (August 1957): 241-248.
- Marshall Waingrow, "The Mighty Moral of Irene," in From Sensibility to Romanticism, pp. 79-92.
- Howard D. Weinbrot, The Formal Strain: Studies in Augustan Imitation and Satire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969), pp. 165-191, 193-217.
- Weinbrot, "Johnson's London and Juvenal's Third Satire: The Country as 'Ironic' Norm," Modern Philology, 73 (May 1976): S56-S65.
- Anne Williams, "Satire into Lyric: The Vanity of Human Wishes," in her The Prophetic Strain: The Greater Lyric in the Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 79-82.