Browse Quoted Authors



These pages link to Johnson’s dictionary entries that quote a particular author, no matter how Johnson cites that author in the printed dictionary. For example, Edmund Spenser is linked to his quotations regardless of whether Johnson credited Spenser, Spenser’s, Spens., or just Faerie Queene. To search the words on the dictionary's printed pages, see our Search page. For more information on using this page, see our Guide to Browse Quoted Authors. To request exported data about an author, click the Feedback tab on the right side of the page and tell us what you need.