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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.
==further reading==
==Bibliography==
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1564 Boswell's ''Life''], downloadable etext from Project Gutenberg
===Works===
* Martin, Peter. ''Samuel Johnson: A Biography'' (2008), standard scholarly biography
* ''Samuel Johnson: The Major Works,'' ed. by Donald Greene (2009) [http://www.amazon.com/Samuel-Johnson-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199538336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256974594&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Rogers, Pat. "Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' (2004) online edn, May 2009
===Biographies===
===Primary sources===
* Bate, Walter Jackson. ''Samuel Johnson''. Harcourt, 1977.
* Johnson, Samuel. ''Samuel Johnson: The Major Works,'' ed. by Donald Greene (2009) [http://www.amazon.com/Samuel-Johnson-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199538336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256974594&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1564 Boswell, James. ''The Life of Samuel Johnson'']. 1791. (downloadable etext from Project Gutenberg)
* DeMaria, Robert. ''The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography''. Blackwell, 1993.
* Lipking, Lawrence. ''Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author''. Harvard UP, 1998.
* Martin, Peter. ''Samuel Johnson: A Biography'' (2008), standard scholarly biography
* Nokes, David. ''Samuel Johnson: A Life''. Macrae/Holt, 2009.
* Rogers, Pat. "Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' (2004) online edn, May 2009
===Critical studies===
* Reddick, Allen. ''The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, 1746-1773''. Cambridge UP, 1990.
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