Title: Samuel Johnson
First published: 1977
Description: An account of Dr. Johnson's dramatic personal life, monumental genius, and boundless literary activities and impact follows him from poverty and hack work, through trial and tumult, to lionization as the unchallenged literary arbiter of his times.
Subjects: Critics, Intellectual life, English Authors, Lexicographers, Intellectuals, Biography, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Authors, English, Biographies, Écrivains anglais, Great britain, intellectual life, Lexicography
Places: Great Britain
People: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Time periods: 18th century