Nov 18, 2008
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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