Samuel Johnson
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Born September 18, 1709
Died December 13, 1784 (75 years old)
Lichfield, Kingdom of Great Britain
Also known as: Yue, Hansheng
129 books
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Description
Samuel Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
Books
Newest First
Samuel Johnson's unpublished revisions to his Dictionary of the English language
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Selected writings
John Reid Muir, Jules Supervielle, Grace Aguilar, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Benjamin Franklin, George Herbert Mead, Thomas Browne, Jean Baudrillard, Thomas Cranmer, Galileo Galilei, Mazzini, Giuseppe, Sir Philip Sidney, John Ruskin, Antonin Artaud, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Heinrich von Kleist, Orestes Augustus Brownson, James Clarence Mangan, William Hazlitt, Augusta Gregory, Thomas Aquinas, Paul Éluard, Blanche Edith Baughan, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Olson, M. A. Kuzmin, Voltaire, Walter Raleigh, Rubén Darío, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Bacon, Tony Cliff, Roman Jakobson, Irving Howe, Augustine of Hippo, Edward Carpenter, Walter Benjamin, Meister Eckhart, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alexander von Humboldt, Connolly, James, Joseph Stalin, Oliver Goldsmith, Salvatore Quasimodo, Gérard de Nerval, Henri Michaux, Wilhelm Reich, George Edward Moore, Thomas More, Charles Williams, Leigh Hunt, Rémy de Gourmont, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Lancelot Andrewes, Denis Diderot, Izaak Walton, Blaise Cendrars, Robert Musil, Vita Sackville-West, Carl Gustav Jung, Hildegard Saint, Jules Laforgue, Émile Durkheim, Franz Baermann Steiner, Gerrard Winstanley, Wilhelm Dilthey, T. E. Hulme, Juan Ramón Jiménez, William James, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb
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Essays
Jeremy Collier, Umberto Eco, H. I. D. Ryder, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Walter Kasper, Béla Bartók, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, John Fiske, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael Pye, Octavio Paz, Sayyid Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲, Joseph Addison, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Евгений Иванович Замятин, Henry F. (Henry Francis) Pelham, Arthur Christopher Benson, Grant, Percy Stickney, Charles Carroll Everett, Jean François Lyotard, Herbert Spencer, Raymond Williams, William Hazlitt, Giorgio Agamben, Alfred Kerr, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, William Butler Yeats, William Graham Sumner, Allen Tate, James Beattie, J. H. Plumb, William Godwin, Francis Bacon, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Thomas Buckle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herman Friedrich Grimm, John Addington Symonds, James Hadley, James Laughlin, Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, Irving Howe, E. M. W. Tillyard, Benjamin Rush, Plutarch, Morton Feldman, Simone Weil, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard Zinn, Ellen Key, Salisbury, Robert Cecil marquess of, J. Logie Robertson, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Henry Huxley, Arnold Zweig, Hugh Miller, Mackenzie, Morell Sir, George Orwell, Bing Xin, Roland Barthes, Errico Malatesta, George John Romanes, Parsons, Theophilus, Alice Meynell, Alejo Carpentier, Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Barzun, James Huneker, Thomas Paine, Thomas Merton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Montaigne, Michel de, David Hume, Paul Valéry, Félix Guattari, Wilhelm Max Wundt, Christopher Hill, Shen, Congwen, Italo Calvino, Robert Morgan, James Martineau, Abūlkalām Āzād, Friedrich Schiller, Rosemond Tuve, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Carl Gustav Jung, John Henry Newman, Thomas De Quincey, Virginia Woolf, Matthew Arnold, Frederic William Henry Myers, Ernst Troeltsch, Martin Buber, Hermann Bahr, Thomas Mann, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Jonathan Franzen, Samuel Johnson, Anscombe, G. E. M., Charles Lamb, George Brimley, John Abercrombie, Thomas Monro, Hubert Bland
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