Samuel Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".1 He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.[2] (Source.)
Samuel Johnson LL.D.
Author details
- Born:
- Sept. 18, 1709
- Died:
- Dec. 13, 1784
External links
Books by Samuel Johnson LL.D.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1
by James Boswell, Edmund Burke, James Thomson, and 71 others