Samuel Johnson
Feb 01, 2019
2 minutes
WORDS LAURA SILVERMAN
Samuel Johnson was a tall, ungainly man, shabby and twitchy. He was also one of the greatest literary figures of the 18th century, compiling the most popular English dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later. A Dictionary of took a cluster of collaborators eight years to put together.
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