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
- I.— ON THE SPRING.
- II.— ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A CHINA TUB OF GOLD FISHES.
- III — ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE.
- IV.— HYMN TO ADVERSITY.
- V.— THE PROGRESS OF POESY.
- VII.— THE FATAL SISTERS.
- VIII.— THE DESCENT OF ODIN.
- IX.— THE DEATH OF HOEL.
- X.— THE TRIUMPH OF OWEN:
- XI.— FOR MUSIC.
- A LONG STORY.
- ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.