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 ...

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 ...

Back in late 18th-century London, Samuel Johnson was known for many things. He was an accomplished poet, playwright, and essayist. He was a literary critic and author of A Dictionary of the ...

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).

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 ...

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.