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23 de abr. de 2024 · Samuel Johnson, English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer who was one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters. He is well remembered for his aphorisms, but his criticism is perhaps his most significant form of writing. Learn more about Johnson’s life and career.
Hace 2 días · Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [ OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), 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.
1 de may. de 2024 · In 1747, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), a poet, writer, critic, satirist, and lexicographer, published Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language.Johnson took a conservative approach to protect and preserve the English language: “The chief intent… is to preserve the purity and ascertain the meaning of our English idiom… one great end of this undertaking is to fix the English language.”
25 de abr. de 2024 · Freya Johnston is a professor of English at Oxford and a fellow of St Anne’s. She has written books about Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen and is the general editor of the Cambridge edition of the novels of Thomas Love Peacock.
Hace 11 horas · Today, 16 May, is #NationalBiographersDay, as it commemorates the first meeting of literary figure Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell #OnThisDay 1763. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1799 edition of Boswell’s "The Life of Samuel Johnson" (considered one of the greatest biographies ever written) #BiographersDay
30 de abr. de 2024 · Hester Lynch Piozzi was an English writer and friend of Samuel Johnson. In 1763 she married a wealthy brewer named Henry Thrale. In January 1765 Samuel Johnson was brought to dinner, and the next year, following a severe illness, Johnson spent most of the summer in the country with the Thrales.
26 de abr. de 2024 · 1669 likes. Samuel Johnson — ‘Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.’.
