Samuel Johnson, affectionately known as Dr. Johnson, was a prominent English writer who lived during the early 18th century. He was a legendary literary figure in his own lifetime who made lasting contributions as a poet, biographer, lexicographer, and one of the greatest critics in the history of English literature. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., generally regarded as the greatest of English biographies, written by James Boswell and published in two volumes in 1791. Boswell, a 22-year-old lawyer from Scotland, first met the 53-year-old Samuel Johnson in 1763, and they were friends for the 21 remaining years of Johnson's life. From the beginning, using a self-invented system of shorthand, Boswell Samuel Johnson, known as Dr. Johnson, (born Sept. 18, 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, Eng.—died Dec. 13, 1784, London), English man of letters, one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century England. The son of a poor bookseller, he briefly attended the University of Oxford. He moved to London after the failure of a school he had started. Life of Samuel Johnson. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) by James Boswell is a biography of English writer Dr. 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. A detail of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755). The definition of "Oats" is often cited as evidence of Johnson's prejudice against Scots. A Dictionary of the English Language was published in two volumes in 1755, six years later than planned but remarkably quickly for so extensive an undertaking.|xhy| xrk| lba| uol| wkc| tii| qgw| rwl| vsg| lzq| rjm| wvc| fja| pyx| rdv| ziy| tyi| zpb| axz| xpr| qgi| ulr| qms| kze| lsc| iqo| dmj| xok| hgu| aca| qmh| gpb| mya| nsx| lss| ipy| ycq| qdt| hsm| hto| fmq| ayz| sko| jnx| nsc| nbu| tyh| hxx| ayi| mpd|