Dr.Samuel Johnson

biographer of Samuel Johnson

• Richard Oswell

• David Benedict

• James Boswell

• Richard Crashaw

He worked as a Doctor, but later he moved to London where he began to write for The Gentleman’s Magazine

• correct

• incorrect

Dr. Johnson wrote only one play ‘Irene’ and one novel______

• The universal chronicle

• The Razona

• The Rasselas

• The Female Quixote

Towards the end of his life, he produced the massive and influential “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets”, which is a collection of biographies and evaluations of ____century poets.

• 16th and 17th

• 17th and 18th

• 15th and 16th

• 14th and 15th

Johnson describes ____ as ‘the poet of nature’.

• Milton

• Voltaire

• Shakespeare

• Wordsworth

Johnson’s Circle (Literary Club) includes: Joshua Reynolds, , Goldsmith,, and....

• Boswell.

• Gibbon

• Edmund Burk

• Garrick

The poem describes the various problems of London, including an emphasis on crime, corruption, and squalor of the poor. The characters of Malice, Rapine, and Accident conspire to attack those who live in London. Famous Line– “I praise the hermit, but regret the friend, Resolved at length from vice and London Far.” In this poem, Johnson focuses on the corruption of the court of George II

It was the first published work of Johnson which includes his name on the title page.  The poem focuses on human futility and humanity’s quest after greatness like Juvenal but concludes that Christian values are important to living properly.  It emphasizes philosophy over politics.  Walter Scott and T.S. Eliot considered it to be Johnson’s greatest poem

• London

• The Vanity of Human Wishes

• Irene

• Messiah

“Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets” comprises short biographies and critical appraisal of ______ poets, most of whom lived during 18th century and arranged approximately by date of death.

• 45

• 50

• 52

• 54

In Life of Johnson use ‘Metaphysical School of Poetry’ for the first time

• Milton

• Cowley

• Pope

• Dryden