Samuel Johnson (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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The range and quality of Samuel Johnson’s literary output is almost unparalleled in either English or American literature. He wrote tragedy, poetry, biography, periodical essays, and travel books. He is most famous for his A Dictionary of the English Language: To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar (1755), Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, his critical edition, with notes and a preface, of The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765), and his collection of essays The Lives of the Poets (1779-1781)....
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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)
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