English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer, conversationalist, regarded as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century life and letters. Johnson’s literary reputation is part dependent on James Boswell’s (1740-1795) biography The life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. (1791).-Johnson became Doctor Johnson when Dublin University gave him the honorary degree in 1765. He has a huge, strong athletic build, his appetite was legendary and it is said that he ...
