Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson

Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This book revolves around Thomas Babington Macaulay's perspective of Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions through his publication of A Dictionary of the English Language. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history."

Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing

Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing
Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393302585

Focuses on the struggles and pressures which attended the literary career of the eighteenth-century figure