personality of specific individuals-historical, like Swift, Milton, Pope and Savage, and fictional, like the characters ("Dick Linger", "Sober", "Cupidus" and so forth) who populate the Rambler and Idler essays. Unsurprisingly, Johnson's reading of human psychology at large is shown to reflect his own propensities-indeed,.it served as an attempt to resolve the crises afflicting his own intra-ps...