Some 300 years after his birth in 1709, Samuel Johnson is remembered for having had a very successful biographer and for being eminently quotable. He of course planned the biographical part by giving ...

MR. LONGFELLOW’S volume, 1 made up of a biography of some one hundred and fifty pages, and a series of lectures, sermons, essays, and addresses, selected with excellent judgment from the mass of Mr.

College Literature publishes original and innovative scholarly research across the various periods, intellectual fields, and geographical locations of Anglophone and comparative literary studies. The ...

We celebrate this month the 300th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the greatest British writer of the second half of the 18th century. He was, in fact, a man of letters: poet, ...

Founded in 1948, The Hudson Review deals with the area where literature bears on the intellectual life of the time and on diverse aspects of American culture. The magazine serves as a major forum for ...

Mr. Keizer is an author and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and Virginia Quarterly Review. If resolution makers wanted a patron saint, they could do worse than Samuel Johnson (1709 to 1784) ...

Google’s Doodle today commemorates the birthday of the compiler of the first authoritative English dictionary - Samuel Johnson, who was born 308 years ago today in Lichfield, Staffordshire. Already a ...