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By 1764 Johnson was the center of the Literary Club, which featured many of the leading intellectuals and artists of London; he dominated by his quick wit and vast range of knowledge.
By 1764 Johnson was the center of the Literary Club, which featured many of the leading intellectuals and artists of London; he dominated by his quick wit and vast range of knowledge.
Johnson was a conservative supporter of [[King George III]]. He wrote "Taxation No Tyranny" (March 1775) to instruct Americans that they should quietly and obediently pay their taxes. Johnson often ridiculed the American Revolution--as indeed he ridiculed most politicians in London in his brilliant conversations, which were often recorded in the touchstone of all English biographies [[James Boswell]]'s ''Life of Samuel Johnson''.
Johnson was a conservative supporter of [[King George III]]. He wrote "[http://www.samueljohnson.com/tnt.html Taxation No Tyranny]" (March 1775) to instruct Americans that they should quietly and obediently pay their taxes. Johnson often ridiculed the American Revolution -- as indeed he ridiculed most politicians in London in his brilliant conversations, which were often recorded in the touchstone of all English biographies, [[James Boswell]]'s ''Life of Samuel Johnson''.
A man of enormous energy despite perpetual poor health and erudition, Johnson was a polymath with an unusually wide range of knowledge. He wrote for nearly all genres excelling in literary criticism, satire, plays, biography, the moral essay, fiction, scholarly editing, travel writing, political pamphleteering, journalism, and of course lexicography. He wrote fine both in English and in Latin, composed noteworthy sermons and impressive prayers, and left a candid diary, and superb letters.
A man of enormous energy despite perpetual poor health and erudition, Johnson was a polymath with an unusually wide range of knowledge. He wrote for nearly all genres excelling in literary criticism, satire, plays, biography, the moral essay, fiction, scholarly editing, travel writing, political pamphleteering, journalism, and of course lexicography. He wrote fine both in English and in Latin, composed noteworthy sermons and impressive prayers, and left a candid diary, and superb letters.
==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
===Works===
===Works===
* ''A Dictionary of the English Language'', 1755.
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=CxATAAAAYAAJ&ots=V-uf-Ec85P&dq=Samuel%20Johnson%20%22Dictionary%20of%20the%20English%20Language%22&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''A Dictionary of the English Language''], 1755. (Available online from Google Book Search.)
** ([http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5430 Preface available separately from Project Gutenberg])
* ''The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia'', 1759.
* ''The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia'', 1759.
* ''A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'', 1775.
* ''A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'', 1775.
===Biographies===
===Biographies===
* Bate, Walter Jackson. ''Samuel Johnson''. Harcourt, 1977.
* Bate, Walter Jackson. ''Samuel Johnson''. Harcourt, 1977.
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1564 Boswell, James. ''The Life of Samuel Johnson'']. 1791. (downloadable etext from Project Gutenberg)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1564 Boswell, James. ''The Life of Samuel Johnson'']. 1791. (available online from Project Gutenberg)
* DeMaria, Robert. ''The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography''. Blackwell, 1993.
* DeMaria, Robert. ''The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography''. Blackwell, 1993.
* Lipking, Lawrence. ''Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author''. Harvard UP, 1998.
* Lipking, Lawrence. ''Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author''. Harvard UP, 1998.