Description: Essential writings on the English language--its history, structure, and cultural importance--by one of its most adroit practitioners
Review Quotes: "Thanks . . . to the consummate and consummating editors of Johnson on the English Language: Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr. Their cooperation--with one another and with Johnson--is magnificent. Their erudition is immense and yet measured, deep and yet crystalline."--Christopher Ricks, New Criterion
"The latest superb volume of the Yale edition of [Johnson's] works."--Eric Ormsby, New York Sun "Since these writings are never again likely to be critically edited, it is fortunate they fell in to such capable hands; two editors who, in an imperfect world, have reached a high level of perfection, and prepared a model edition likely to stand the test of time."--O. M. Brack, Jr., Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer