Samuel JohnsonBirth Chart
07/09/1709 Julian 15:53
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Lichfield
England
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Samuel Johnson was an English writer and intellectual whose work had a deep impact on eighteenth-century literature and criticism. Self-taught after leaving Oxford for lack of funds, he worked as a tutor, translator and journalist; he gained notice with the biography The Life of Richard Savage (1744) and established his reputation with the monumental A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), a lasting reference for the language.
A contributor to periodicals such as The Rambler and The Idler, Johnson moved among moral essay, literary criticism and narrative prose — including the well-known short novel Rasselas (1759). His annotated edition of Shakespeare (1765) and the inquiry that exposed the falsity of the works attributed to Ossian exemplify his critical acumen.
Leader of a literary circle that included figures such as Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and Edward Gibbon, Johnson also produced Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–83), a central work for English neoclassicism. Buried in Westminster Abbey, his influence endures in lexicography, criticism and the shaping of the literary canon.
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