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Reading the "religious" language of Samuel Johnson's Sermons

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From: Renascence
Date: 19990701
Author:Kass, Thomas G

READING THE "RELIGIOUS" LANGUAGE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON'S SERMONS

THE importance and popularity that the sermon once held in the secular as well as in the religious life of England is often underestimated today. Samuel Johnson claimed that he wrote approximately forty sermons; of these, twenty-eight are extant and have been attributed to him.1 The only book-length study of the sermons available to date is James Gray's Johnson's Sermons. A Study. In addition to providing a history of the composition and printing of the Sermons, Gray's study traces Johnson's attitudes on human vanity, the brevity ...

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