The Six Chief Lives


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


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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


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







Macaulay's Life of Johnson


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The Intelligence


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