Samuel Johnson
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- Explicating Poetry: World Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets)
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- The Letters of Samuel Johnson (Magill's Literary Annual 1991-2005)
- The Lives of the Poets (Magill Book Reviews)
- Rasselas (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Preface to Shakespeare (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
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- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
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- The Poetry of Johnson (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
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- Author: Samuel Johnson
Early Life
Samuel Johnson was born on September 18, 1709, in Lichfield; his father, Michael Johnson, was an unsuccessful bookseller. As an infant, Johnson contracted tuberculosis from a wet nurse and lost sight in one eye and hearing in one ear. His physical appearance was not appealing; one of Johnson’s aunt’s declared that she “would not have picked such a poor creature up in the street.” Johnson’s ill health and frightening appearance did not, however, prevent him from educating himself in the back room of his father’s bookshop. He did very well in his studies at...
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