1. Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick
2. London: A Poem, in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
3. On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
4. The Vanity of Human Wishes

1. Preface to his Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1765)

Notes on Life and Works

The standard edition of Johnson’s verse is the sixth volume of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Poems, ed. E. L. McAdam, Jr., and George Milne (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1964).

Biographical information

Given name: Samuel
Family name: Johnson
Birth date: 18 September 1709
Death date: 13 December 1784
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Michael Johnson
          mother: Sarah Johnson
          wife: Elizabeth Porter Johnson (from 9 July 1735)
          brother: Nathanael Johnson
Languages
          English
          Latin
          Greek
Education
          Lichfield Grammar School: 1719 to 1725
          Stourbridge Grammar School: 1725 to 1726
          Pembroke College, Oxford: 31 October 1728 to 1731
Religion: Anglican
Politics: Tory
Honours
          Honorary M.A., Oxford: 20 February 1755
          Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law, Oxford: 30 March 1775
Patron: Henry Hervey
Literary period: Augustan
Residences
          Lichfield: 18 September 1709
          London: March 1737
Illnesses
          Gout
          Asthma
          Scrofula
          Hypochondria
          Emphysema of the lungs
          Granular disease of the kidneys
          Paralytic Stroke: 17 June 1783
Buried at: Westminster Abbey
First RPO edition: 1996-1997