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Samuel Johnson (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
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As the dominant figure of the mid-eighteenth century English literary world, Samuel Johnson’s published works—both what he wrote under his own name and for others under their names—ranged throughout practically every genre and form. In verse, he wrote London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal (1738) and The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated (1749); his poem “On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic” appeared first in The Gentleman’s Magazine (August, 1783) and later...
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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)
