Johnson's theory / W.K. Wimsatt
The life of Boswell / Frederick A. Pottle
The treachery of the human heart and the stratagems of defense / Walter Jackson Bate
In praise of Rasselas : four notes (converging) / W.K. Wimsatt
"The anxious employment of a periodical writer" / Paul Fussell
The vanity of human wishes / Leopold Damrosch, Jr.
The strategies of biography and some eighteenth-century examples / Frank Brady
Boswell's notes toward a supreme fiction : from London Journal to Life of Johnson / Robert H. Bell
A Plutarchan hero : the Tour to Corsica / William C. Dowling
"The language properly so-called" : Johnson's language and politics / John Barrell
Johnson in mourning / Laura Quinney
"Generous attachment" : the politics of biography in the Tour to the Hebrides / Gordon Turnbull.

Reflections as criterion in The lives of the poets / Robert J. Griffin.