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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1904341810
ISBN13:9781904341819
Release Date:August 2005
Publisher:Haus Pub.
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.57 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"
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