Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary

Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language is different. It’s almost entirely the work of one person, and that person is one of the most important writers of the eighteenth century—so important that the period is sometimes called “the age of Johnson.” Johnson was profoundly learned and morally serious; he could also be perverse and wickedly funny, or gloomy and anxious. He was a scholar of prodigious energy, a polemicist of intense passion, and a brilliant conversationalist. All these qualities show through in his Dictionary, especially in the great preface, where he speaks in a personal voice we find in no other dictionary.

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