- works include:
- "The Vanity of Human Wishes" (poem)
- The Lives of the English Poets (biography)
- essays for the journal The Rambler
- the first modern English Dictionary (includes definitions such as "lexicographer - writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge")
- Rasselas (novel about Prince of Abyssinia's unsuccessful quest for happy and fufilling "choice of life")
James Boswell
- friend and disciple of Samuel Johnson
- wrote a genial, sympathetic biography of Johnson
- Johnson is, according to him, a supremely witty and erudite conversationalist with a deep melancholy streak, with generosity of spirit and outbursts of irritability
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