About the author

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was an influential English writer, critic, and lexicographer. The collection holds 23 of his works, spanning poetry, essays, literary criticism, and dictionary writing. Representative titles include The Vanity of Human Wishes, Two Rambler papers, the multi-volume Lives of the Poets, the Preface to Shakespeare, and the Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language. His writing is known for its eloquent, concise prose and moral seriousness, and he excelled in biographical criticism and literary judgment, leaving a lasting mark on the English essay and critical tradition. Because publicly available information is limited, details of his life are not elaborated here.

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