A Note on Dr. Samuel Johnson and the Reception of Chaucer in Eighteenth-Century England

Author / Editor
Snell, William.

Title
A Note on Dr. Samuel Johnson and the Reception of Chaucer in Eighteenth-Century England

Published
Hiyoshi Review of English Studies 44 (2004): 157-72

Description
Explores why Samuel Johnson did not carry out his publicized intention to produce an annotated edition of Chaucer's works. If he had relied on Urry's edition, the annotated edition would have proved a sorry rival to Tyrwhitt's.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.