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Johnson popísal ich spoločné cesty v knihe A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. James Boswell o ňom neskôr napísal cenenú biografiu The Life of Samuel Johnson. Ku koncu života sa Johnson venoval biografiám najvýznamnejších anglických básnikov (Lives of the Poets).
Samuel Johnson, känd som Dr. Johnson, född 18 september 1709 i Lichfield, Staffordshire, död 13 december 1784 i London, var en brittisk författare, kritiker, lexikograf och språkvetare. Han är bland annat känd för sina Shakespeare -kommentarer och sin ordbok, samt för sin konversation, bland annat skildrad i hans vän James Boswells ...
Samuel Johnson - Poet, Critic, Lexicographer: Johnson’s last great work, Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (conventionally known as The Lives of the Poets), was conceived modestly as short prefatory notices to an edition of English poetry. When Johnson was approached by some London booksellers in 1777 to write what he thought of as “little Lives, and ...
Life of Samuel Johnson. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) by James Boswell is a biography of English writer Samuel Johnson. The work was from the beginning a critical and popular success, and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography. It is notable for its extensive reports of Johnson's conversation.
Biografía de Samuel Johnson. Poeta, lexicógrafo, ensayista y biógrafo son sólo algunos de los méritos por los que se recuerda a Samuel Johnson; pero su actividad fue también, y quizás sobre todo, la de crítico literario. Nació el 18 de septiembre de 1709 en Inglaterra Lichfield (Staffordshire).
Primarily known during his lifetime as a lexicographer and a journalist, Samuel Johnson was also a poet and a leading figure in late 18th-century literary circles. The son of a bookseller, Johnson lacked the funds to complete his degree at Oxford. However, he read voraciously at home and began his college career at Oxford by impressing his ...
SAMUEL. (1709-1784) Bien qu'il n'ait laissé en aucun genre une œuvre de premier plan, l'écrivain anglais Samuel Johnson, communément appelé le Dr Johnson, domine son siècle de sa réputation et de son autorité. Il a donné son nom à l'époque littéraire comprise entre les années 1740 et celle de sa mort, survenue en 1784.
