Samuel Johnson

Thrown out of Oxford for a lack of funds, he rose to celebrity: author of the Dictionary, a friend to the king, companion of Reynolds, Goldsmith and Garrick.

David Nokes looks beyond Johnson's remarkable public persona and beyond the Johnson that Boswell to some extent created.

This study explores the 'found' world of historical circumstance and the 'made' world of the imagination in Rushdie's fiction.

Provides an introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the most important poets in our literature.