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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, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican, and a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson was selected by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, he attended Pembroke College, Oxford until lack of funds forced him to leave. After work as a teacher, he moved to London and began writing for The Gentleman's Magazine. Early works include Life of Mr Richard Savage, the poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes and the play Irene. After nine years' effort, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language appeared in 1755 with far-reaching effects on Modern English, acclaimed as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship". Until the arrival of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later, Johnson's was pre-eminent. Later work included essays, an annotated The Plays of William Shakespeare and The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. In 1763 he befriended James Boswell, with whom he travelled to Scotland, as Johnson described in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Near the end of his life came a massive, influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets of 17th and 18th centuries.
Tall and robust, he displayed gestures and tics that disconcerted some on meeting him. Boswell's Life, along with other biographies, documented Johnson's behaviour and mannerisms in such detail that they have informed the posthumous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome, a condition not defined or diagnosed in the 18th century. After several illnesses, he died on the evening of 13 December 1784 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Thereafter he was increasingly seen to have had a lasting effect on literary criticism and even claimed to be the one truly great critic of English literature.


A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology

Selected Essays

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Lives of the Poets

The Major Works

Samuel Johnson: Selected Works

Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

El Lissitzky on Paper: Print Culture, Architecture, Politics, 1919–1933

Preface to Shakespeare

Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

London and Westminster Improved, Illustrated by Plans: To Which is Prefixed, a Discourse on Publick Magnificence, With Observations on the State of Ar

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Dear Dad

The Works of the English Poets

Johnson on Shakespeare

Johnson's dictionary, abridged for the use of schools, with the addition of Walker's pronunciation; an abstract of his principles of English pronunciation, with questions; a vocabulary of Greek, Latin, and scripture proper names

The history of the Yorubas

Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (Volume I)

Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (Volume II)

Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae; Or A Catalogue of the Remaining part of the Library of the Late Earl of Oxford. (Volume V)

Oriental religions and their relation to universal religion

Lives of the English Poets

Rasselas, prince d'Abyssinie

An Account of the Life of MR Richard Savage

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Debates In Parliament

Papers Relative to the Late Negotiation with Spain; And the Taking of Falkland's Island from the English.

Ethices Elementa, Or, the First Principles of Moral Philosophy: And Especially That Part of It Which Is Called Ethics: In a Chain of Necessary Consequ

Taxation No Tyranny

A Letter from a Minister of the Church of England to His Dissenting Parishioners: Containing a Brief Answer to the Most Material Objections Against th

Indiscriminate Zones

Third Parallel to Marriage

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland

The Works of Samuel Johnson Volume V

Dr. Johnson's Works

The Works of Samuel Johnson

Notes to Shakespeare Volume I Comedies

Dr. Johnson's Works - Volume I

Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare - Volume I

Lives of the Poets - Volume II

Lives of the Poets - Volume I

Lives of the Poets - Volume III

Notes to Shakespeare - Volume III

Poetical Works of Johnson

Shorter Novels

The Vanity of Human Wishes

The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume II

The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV

The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume the Second

The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume V

The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume VI

The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume X

The Works of Samuel Johnson - Voume XI

The Works of Samuel Johnson -Volume IV

Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia

Samuel Johnson Works - Parliamentary Debates - Volume II

The Works of Samuel Johnson - Vol. X

Le Paresseux

The History of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia

A Dictionary of the English Language (Illustrated)

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Vol. VI

The Works of Samuel Johnson - Vol. V

The Rambler Vol II

Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson

Essays from the Rambler and the Idler

Paradise Lost, by John Milton, a Criticism on the Poem by Samuel Johnson

A Grammar of the English Tongue (Illustrated)

Lives of the Poets (Addison, Savage, Swift)

The Selected Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler: Selected Essays from the "Rambler," "Adventurer," and "Idler"

Papers from the Idler

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: The Magic of Oz, Glinda of Oz, the Little Wizard Stories of Oz

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies

A Grammar of the English Tongue

Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Notes to Shakespeare

Johnson's Lives of the Poets - Volume 2

Johnson's Lives of the Poets - Volume 1

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets

Lives of the English Poets Prior Congreve Blackmore Pope

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Paperback)

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Hardback)

A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774: Its Use and Abuse

Oriental Religions - Vol I

Lives of the English Poets-Vol I

Lives of the English Poets-Vol II

The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Volume IV: 1782-1784

The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Volume I: 1731-1772

The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Volume II: 1773-1776

The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Volume III: 1777-1781

The Rambler
