Samuel is known for writing profound poetry, fictions, moralizing essays, &  political pieces… Johnson, the premier English literary figure of the mid & late 18th century, was a writer of exceptional range, a poet, a lexicographer, a translator, a journalist and essayist, a travel writer, a biographer, an editor, and a critic… Samual’s literary fame has traditionally and properly rested more on his prose than on his poetry.

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