Samuel Johnson

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United Kingdom, Lexicographer
September 18, 1709December, 13, 1784.

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and is described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".ure.

Also known as Linguist, Poet, Literary Historian, Writer, Teacher, Literary Critic, Biographer, Essayist

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