This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The “Poems of Doubtful Authorship” in modern editions of Samuel Johnson’s poetry include three Latin poems that were first associated with ...

Is there a writer more associated with London than Samuel Johnson? Dickens perhaps — and you could make a case for Samuel Pepys or Virginia Woolf.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett received the accolade for her book, The Pike, in a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the Samuel Johnson Prize ...

Samuel Johnson: Who was he, ... His earliest works included the long-form poems ‘London’ and ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’ and the periodicals The Rambler and The Idler.

But London proved to be Johnson’s salvation. He made a connection with the editor of the popular Gentleman’s Magazine and started to earn a living by hackwork. Soon enough his reputation was ...

G is for Grave - Following his death on 13 December 1784, Johnson was buried in London's Westminster Abbey. H is for Hodge - Johnson was a great lover of cats. Boswell's biography describes him buying ...

His essays in The Idler and The Rambler, his poems “London ... Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, edited by Jack Lynch (to be published on Sept. 18, 2003, Johnson’s 294 th birthday).

B. Baldwin (ed.), The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson (London, 1995) N. Rudd, Samuel Johnson. The Latin Poems (Lewisburg, 2005). A.J. Wiesenthal, “On the Literary Value of Samuel Johnson’s ...

Samuel Johnson has revealed the real reason behind his recent shock career change. The Secret Life Of Us star, 47, revealed in 2024 that he had taken on the role of part-time postman in the small ...

This week the focus is on Samuel Johnson. A series by Special Collections Information Assistant Anne Marie McHarg. Have you ever ventured into the Octagon, ... He contributed a lot to The Gentleman’s ...

Naomi Alderton discovers the idiosyncratic, contrarian, chaotic and extremely generous sides of Samuel Johnson, the “hack” writer who almost single-handedly wrote a seminal English dictionary.