Samuel Johnson
1709 - 1784
Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".Poems
- The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated by Samuel Johnson
- One And Twenty
- Lines
- On the Death of Dr Robert Levet
- Friendship
- To a Young Lady, on Her Birthday
- Spring
- On Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend About a Gown and Hat
- On Lyce - An Elderly Lady
- A Short Song of Congratulation
- Autumn
- Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick