Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".

Works

A Grammar of the English Tongue

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

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Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 / The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes

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Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1

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Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope

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Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

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Lives of the English Poets / Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c.

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Lives of the Poets, Volume 1

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Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies

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Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies

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Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

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Preface to Shakespeare

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Rasselas

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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

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The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750)

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Volume 04

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 / Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 02 / The Rambler, Volume I

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 / The Rambler, Volume II

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 / The Adventurer; The Idler

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 / Miscellaneous Pieces

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 / The Lives of the Poets, Volume II

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 / Parlimentary Debates I

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 11. / Parlimentary Debates II.

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About the author

Samuel Johnson

Language of works

english

Born/died

1709 — 1784

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