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
- To Miss---,
- The Vanity of Wealth
- Written at the Request of a Gentleman to Whom a Lady Had Given a Sprig of Myrtle
- The Winter's Walk
- To Mrs Thrale on Her Completing Her Thirty-fifth Year
- To Miss Hickman, Playing the Spinet
- To Myrtilis - The New Year's Offering
- To Lady Firebrace
- Translation of a Speech of Aquileio in the Adriano of Metastasio
- Inspiration
- The City of God
- Gnothi Seauton