Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary
Today in Literature: April 15, 1755 Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published. [title page from …
Today in Literature: April 15, 1755 Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published. [title page from …
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)—one of the greatest moralists, poets, biographers, critics, essayists, and correspondents of all time—so dominated literary and intellectual …