Böcker av S. C. Roberts

First published in 1958, this book contains four essays on various aspects of Johnson's personality and achievement as well as a survey of other men of literature, such as Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, Thomas Fuller, Thomas Grey, James Beresford, Benjamin Wrigglesworth Beatson and Max Beerbohm.

The main focus of this concise 1930 volume is on Samuel Johnson, particularly in terms of his relationship with the surrounding cultural climate of the eighteenth century. Four essays on Johnson constitute the main part of the text, and this section is bookended by portraits of George Lyttelton and Thomas Macaulay.

An insight by a distinguished Press publisher into the notoriously delicate relationship between author and publisher, and a record, by one who was at once a participant and a spectator, of the way of life of a major university as it evolved from the Victorian to the modern mode.