Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, an
Portrait c. 1772
Johnson's birthplace in Market Square, Lichfield
Entrance of Pembroke College, Oxford
Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, Johnson's wife
Life of Samuel Johnson
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell is a 1791 biography of English writer and literary critic Samuel Johnson. The work was from the beginning a universal critical and popular success, a
Samuel Johnson
…at least until the arrival of the Oxford English Dictionary some 150 years later. His life was also a story worth telling: Boswell's 1791 biography, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD, was selected by fellow Johnson-biographer Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature". Samuel…
James Boswell at 25, by George Willison
Samuel Johnson in his later years