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Samuel Johnson
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- Founder:
- “The Rambler”
- Notable Works:
- “A Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage” “A Dictionary of the English Language” “An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers” “Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia” “Irene” “London” “Rasselas” “Taxation No Tyranny” “The False Alarm” “The Lives of the Poets” “The Patriot” “The Vanity of Human Wishes” “Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands”
- Subjects Of Study:
- English literature poetry
Samuel Johnson, byname Dr. Johnson, (born September 18, 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England—died December 13, 1784, London), English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters. Johnson once characterized literary biographies as “mournful narratives,” and he believed that he lived “a life radically wretched.” Yet his career can be seen as a literary success story of the sickly boy from the Midlands who by talent, tenacity, and intelligence became the foremost literary figure and the most formidable conversationalist of his time. For future generations, Johnson was synonymous with the later 18th ...(100 of 6938 words)