Nov 18, 2008
Samuel Johnson was a journalist, essayist, critic, scholar, lexicographer, biographer, and satirist. Early in his career, he wrote reports on the debates in Parliament for The Gentleman’s Mazagine. Until 1762, when he received a pension from the British government, Johnson was a professional writer and wrote what publishers would buy. The most important results of his efforts, in addition to his poetry, were his A Dictionary of the English Language: To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar (1755), his essays...
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