Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson was a journalist, essayist, critic, scholar, lexicographer, biographer, and satirist. Early in his career, he wrote reports on the debates in Parliament for The Gentleman’s Mazagine. Until 1762, when he received a pension from the British government, Johnson was a professional writer and wrote what publishers would buy. The most important results of his efforts, in addition to his poetry, were his A Dictionary of the English Language: To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar (1755), his essays...

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• Idler, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Letters of Samuel Johnson, The (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Life of Richard Savage (Masterplots Classics)
• Lives of the Poets, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Lives of the Poets (Magill Book Reviews)
• London (Poetry)
• On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet (Poetry)
• Poetry of Johnson, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Preface to Shakespeare (Masterplots Classics)
• Rambler, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Rasselas (Masterplots Classics)
• Rasselas (Character Profiles)
• Rasselas (Literary Places)
• Rasselas (Magill Book Reviews)
• Vanity of Human Wishes, The (Poetry)
• English Poetry in the Eighteenth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)