Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: This friend of the Thrale family opposed war with Spain in his Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands, and his last major work was his Lives of English Poets. His friend David Garrick produced his tragedy Irene, and he recounted his travels in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, a trip he undertook with his biographer, James Boswell. For 10 points, name this author of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, whose most lasting work was compiled between 1745 and 1755 as A Dictionary of the English Language.
A:
Literature