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Samuel Johnson
Timothy Wilson-Smith
出版Haus Publishing, 2004
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN19043418109781904341819
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KzhPEVECD9AC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson was one of the pre-eminent figures of 18th-century English letters. Johnson was also a legendary wit and conversationalist, whose sharp-tongued pronouncements and many eccentricities are well recorded in Boswell's classic Life. In 1755 he published the first proper dictionary of the English language, defining some 40,000 wordswith great verve. In it he defined a lexicographer as a "harmless drudge". His essays on Shakespeare, his Lives of the Poets and his extensive periodical essays were all seminal works in their field and his philosophical romance Rasselas is as pungent today as ever.