Samuel Johnson

by S.C. Roberts

Dr Johnson, who lived in from 1709 to 1784, was one of the most remarkable Englishmen of all time: scholar, poet, Parliamentary reporter, essayist, moralist, critic, lexicographer and a character whose talk and opinions illuminate the best-known biography in the language, the Life by James Boswell, which first appeared in 1791.

It has been the author's purpose to show Johnson in his grandeur independently of Boswell. This he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582010470
• ISBN13: 9780582010475
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 44 Pages