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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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