English Literature / Unit 11 ENL 1018 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Samuel Johnson
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The idea
Samuel Johnson, a bookseller's son from Lichfield, came to London poor and became its leading man of letters: poet, essayist in The Rambler, lexicographer, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic. His Lives of the Poets judged fifty-two English poets.
In practice
Poet, essayist, lexicographer, critic.
Where people slip
Johnson's prose is moral and weighty.
Your place on the trail
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