Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Samuel Johnson
    -Samuel Johnson's Essays
    -The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page
    -WIKIPEDIA: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
    -AUDIO BOOK: Rasselas (LibriVox)
    -ETEXT: Rasselas (Project Gutenberg)
    -STUDY GUIDE: Rasselas by Samuel Johnson: Summary, Analysis & History (Study.com)
    -STUDY GUIDE: Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759) (Professor Florence S. Boos)
    -STUDY GUIDE: The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia (Grade Saver)
    -RADIO PLAY: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (BBC Radio 4)
    -POEM: Today’s Poem: The Vanity of Human Wishes: Cheerful wisdom and instructive mirth (Joseph Bottum, Nov 04, 2024, Poems Ancient and Modern)
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    -STUDY GUIDE: Rasselas (FJU.edu)
    -ENTRY: Rasselas (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
    -POODCAST: Phil Jones on Why We Read Samuel Johnson (From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson, April 11, 2024)
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    -ESSAY: Growling in a corner: Samuel Johnson’s lost years (Henry Oliver, May 04, 2026, The Common Reader)
    -ESSAY: Why Dr. Johnson Kicked a Stone After Hearing Berkeley’s Argument: After hearing about George Berkeley’s philosophical position, Dr. Johnson’s response was to kick a stone as hard as he could. (Vanja Subotic, 5/07/26, The Collector)
    -ESSAY: 5 Iconic Quotes by Samuel Johnson: Samuel Johnson was renowned not only for his skills as a lexicographer and dramatist but also for his ability to entertain with his witty remarks. (Elizabeth Morgan, 9/23/25, The Collector)
    -ESSAY: The Man Without Illusions (Dan Hitchens, May 14, 2025, Compact)
    -ESSAY: Man of Sorrows: Samuel Johnson and the power of sympathy. (Alan Jacobs, January/February 2010, Books & Culture)
    -ESSAY: What Samuel Johnson Really Did: He Made Dictionaries Matter (Michael Adams, September/October 2009, , Humanities)
    -ESSAY: Samuel Johnson as Hero (Jeffrey Hart, May 2014, Modern Age)
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    -ESSAY: Utopian Fantasies vs. Real Happiness in Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas” (Mitchell Kalpakgian, February 27th, 2023, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: James Boswell and Samuel Johnson: The Original Odd Couple (Robert Zaretsky, August 5, 2013, VQR)
    -ESSAY: "A useful time-capsule of Georgian life": Samuel Johnson and his remarkable dictionary: Samuel Johnson's 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language made a huge contribution to the English language. More than 250 years on, it has become a useful time-capsule of 18th-century life. (Henry Hitchings, June 6, 2022, History Extra)
    -ESSAY: Boswell, Johnson, and the Church: Our late, beloved Fr. James V. Schall, through all his travels and adventures, took care not to have out of reach a copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson. (HADLEY ARKES, 6/07/21, CERC)
    -ESSAY: Utopian Fantasies vs. Real Happiness in Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas” (Mitchell Kalpakgian, August 31st, 2018, Imaginative Conservative)
    -VIDEO LECTURE: The Novel & Morality: Samuel Johnson's 'Rasselas' (Professor Belinda Jack, Oct 22, 2014, Gresham College)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English by Wendy L. Belcher (J. Roger Kurtz, Fall 2015, Research in African Literatures)
    -ESSAY: Origin of the Name Rasselas (Wendy Laura Belcher, June 2009, Notes and Queries)
    -ESSAY: Rasselas and the Early Travelers to Abyssinia (John Robert Moore, MARCH 01 1954, Modern Language Quarterly)
    -ESSAY: Samuel Johnson's 'Rasselas': The Duplicity of Choice and the Sense of an Ending (José Angel García Landa, 1990, Humanities Common)
    -ESSAY: Repetitive Patterns in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas (Duane H. Smith, Summer 1996, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900)
    -ESSAY: SAMUEL JOHNSON’S RASSELAS: PRINCE OF ABISSINIA AND THE CULTURE OF THE EAST 1 (Said Abdelwahed, 7 May 2020, Arab World Books)
    -ESSAY: The Choice of Life - Samuel Johnson's 'The History of Rasselas' (Meghan Waters, McConnell Center)
    -ESSAY: Samuel Johnson's Rasselas: A Perspective on Islam (RICHARD F. FLECK, Winter 1993, Critical Essay)
    -ESSAY: Rasselas: A Realist’s Narrative on the Quest for Ideal Happiness (Lauren Le, Bridgewater State U)
    -ESSAY: The Treatment of Women in the History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (Cindy Fritz, 1982, Eastern Illinois University: The Keep)
    -ESSAY: Man's Pursuit of Happiness Dr. Samuel Johnson's Philosophical View in Rasselas (Li-Hsin Ting, 1984)
    -ESSAY: The Image of the Orient in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas (1759) (Abdulhafeth Khrisat, Academia)
    -ESSAY: The Christian Philosophy of Samuel Johnson: NEITHER UTOPIAN NOR CYNICAL (Matthew Anger, September 2009, New Oxford Review)
    -ESSAY: Samuel Johnson's Rasselas (Jacob Lusk, Enlightenment & Disability)
    -ESSAY: Rasselas and the Search for Happiness (Imlac's Journal, July 6, 2013)
    -ESSAY: Samuel Johnson’s style of Writing in His Book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Grades Fixer)
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    -ESSAY: 5 Major Must-Read Works by Samuel Johnson: Let’s explore five major literary works by Samuel Johnson. What are his most important publications about? (Elizabeth Morgan, 5/14/25, The Collector)
    -ESSAY: Samuel Johnson: A Guide for the Perplexed Undergraduate (David Hein, January 12th, 2021, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Reading Boswell’s Johnson (THOMAS ALBERT HOWARD, 10/22/18, Anxious Bench)
   
    -PODCAST: Episode 139: The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (HOSTED BY JOHN J. MILLER, July 7, 2020, National Review: Great Books Podcast)
    -WIKIPEDIA: The Vanity of Human Wishes
    -TEXT: The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated (U Toronto)
    -ESSAY: VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES INTRODUCTION (The Virginia Anthology)
    -STUDY GUIDE: The Vanity of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson: Summary and Analysis (Bachelor & Master)
    -ESSAY: The Vanity of Human Wishes (T. F. Wharton, The Theme of Hope)
    -ESSAY: To "The Vanity of Human Wishes" through the 1740's (John E. Sitter, Studies in Philology)
    -ESSAY: Vanity Of Human Wishes (Student Writing Center, 01 May 2018)
    -ESSAY: 12 Unexpected Facts About Samuel Johnson: Let us step back into the 18th century and discover twelve of the most unexpected and surprising facts about Samuel Johnson. (Elizabeth Morgan, 4/14/25, The Collector)
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    -REVIEW: of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson (Charles E. Pierce Jr., WSJ)
    -REVIEW: of Rasselas (Mitchell Kalpakgian, Crisis)
    -REVIEW: of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson (Juli Rahel, Universe in Words)
    -REVIEW: of Rasselas (Time's Flow Stemmed)
    -REVIEW: of Rasselas (Thomas, Hogglestock)
    -REVIEW: of Rasselas (Less Than a Megabyte)
    -REVIEW: of Rasselas (Hungry Like the Wolf)
    -REVIEW: of Rasselas (His Futile Preoccupations)
    -REVIEW: of The Religious Life of Samuel Johnson. by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. (William Holtz, Eighteenth-Century Studies)
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OLDER SET OF LINKS (may require Wayback Machine)

    -BIO: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) (kirjasto)
    -Samuel Johnson (Wikipedia)
    -The Johnson Society of London
    -The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page
    -ESSAY: Words count: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary was published 250 years ago this month. Beryl Bainbridge describes how a failed teacher and celebrated 'hack' worked for nine years in a London garret to redefine the English language - and his reputation (Beryl Bainbridge, April 2, 2005. The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World by Henry Hitchings (Andrew Motion, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Dr Johnson's Women by Norma Clarke (Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson Volume XVIII: Johnson on the English Language (Victor Wishna, Humanities)
    -REVIEW: of Amorous to zealous: a review of The Life of Samuel Johnson By James Boswell, Samuel Johnson: A Biography By Peter Martin & Samuel Johnson: The Struggle By Jeffrey Meyers (Lewis Jones, Financial Times)