Samuel Johnson Illustrated

By Leslie Stephens

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 OS 7 September] - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, Literarycritic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, 1] and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in EnglishHistory". 2] He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798586080936
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"