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Informationen zum Autor Samuel Johnson was an English writer who was born on September 18, 1709, and died on December 13, 1784. He was called "Dr. Johnson" by many people. He was a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he was "possibly the most famous writer in English history." Johnson became famous in his later years, and after he died, more and more people thought he had a lasting effect on literary criticism. Some even said he was the only truly great critic of English literature. In the 20th century, his ideas shaped the way people thought about literature, and his influence on biography will last for a long time. Johnson's Dictionary had a big impact on Modern English, and it was the best dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary came along 150 years later. The biographer of Samuel Johnson, Walter Jackson Bate, chose James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson as "the most famous single work of biographical art in all of literature." Klappentext This collected edition of Samuel Johnson's writings was published by his literary executor! the musicologist Sir John Hawkins! in 1787. Zusammenfassung Dr Samuel Johnson (1709–84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Volume 10 contains a mixture of political tracts, miscellaneous items, and A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Inhaltsverzeichnis Political Tracts: The false alarm [1770]; Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands [1771]; The patriot, addressed to the electors of Great Britain [1774]; Taxation no tyranny, an answer to the resolutions and address of the American Congress [1775]; Political Essays: Observations on the state of affairs in 1756; An introduction to the political state of Great Britain, written in the year 1756; Miscellaneous Essays: Review of the Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, by Thomas Blackwell; Review of four letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Dr. Bentley, containing some arguments in proof of a deity; Review of a philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful; Review of a free enquiry into the nature and origin of evil; Review of A Journal of eight days journey, from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames ... by Mr. H****; Reply to a paper in the Gazetteer of May 26th, 1757; Introduction to the proceedings of the committee appointed to manage the contributions begun at London, December 18th, 1758, for cloathing French prisoners of war; On the bravery of the English common soldiers; Considerations on the plans offered for the construction of Black Friars Bridge, in three letters to the printer of the Gazetteer, 1759; Some thoughts on agriculture, both ancient and modern; Further thoughts on agriculture; A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland....
