The poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson was one of the pre-eminent figures of 18th-century English letters. Johnson was also a legendary wit and conversationalist, whose sharp-tongued pronouncements and many eccentricities are well recorded in Boswell's classic Life. In 1755 he published the first proper dictionary of the English language, defining some 40,000 wordswith great verve.
In it he defined a lexicographer as a "harmless drudge". His essays on Shakespeare, his Lives of the Poets and his extensive periodical essays were all seminal works in their field and his philosophical romance Rasselas is as pungent today as ever.
| ISBN: | 9781904341819 |
| Publication date: | 22nd November 2004 |
| Author: | Timothy WilsonSmith |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Life & Times |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
The poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson was one of the pre-eminent figures of 18th-century English letters. Johnson was also a legendary wit and conversationalist, whose sharp-tongued pronouncements and many eccentricities are well recorded in Boswell's classic Life.
Samuel Johnson features in the following genres: Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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