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Phil Jones on Why We Read Samuel Johnson

Literary Hub
For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another.
6 months ago

Samuel Johnson: ‘My biggest fashion crime? I had to wear pink lycra for a year’

The Guardian
The Secret Life of Us star talks about his famous unicycle ride, his most prized possession and getting over his lifelong phobia of hospitals.
4 months ago

Samuel Johnson Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Dawson Funeral Home | East Liverpool, OH
Samuel E. “Sam” Johnson, 61. EAST LIVERPOOL – Samuel E. “Sam” Johnson, of East Liverpool, passed away peacefully Monday morning, January 29,...
8 months ago

Samuel Johnson - Literary Critic, Shakespeare Edition

Britannica
Samuel Johnson - Literary Critic, Shakespeare Edition: The pension Johnson had received in 1762 had freed him from the necessity of writing...
3 weeks ago

Samuel Johnson - Poet, Critic, Lexicographer

Britannica
Samuel Johnson - Poet, Critic, Lexicographer: Johnson's last great work, Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English...
3 weeks ago

Freya Johnston · Own your ignorance: Samuel Johnson’s Criticism

London Review of Books
The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought by Philip Smallwood. Cambridge, 219 pp., £85, September 2023, 978 1 009 36999
5 months ago

Art Behind the Meme: Two Comical Portraits of a Serious English Scholar

Artnet News
Did you know the man in the "What Am I Reading” meme, Dr. Samuel Johnson, basically invented the dictionary?
4 months ago

Historic writer's desk could be 'knackered' old fake

BBC
The desk of the writer Dr Samuel Johnson is to be returned to his former London home for the first time in more than 260 years.
3 months ago

Gold Logie winner Samuel Johnson reveals his very surprising career change and it's not what you'd expect: 'It

Daily Mail
Gold Logie winner and cancer charity champion Samuel Johnson has revealed a very community minded career change.
2 months ago

A worthy way to spend your Saturday night – with Samuel Johnson (and for Connie)

HerCanberra
Samuel Johnson is in Canberra for a breast cancer fundraiser in honour of his sister Connie, and with support of the Love Your Sister...
1 month ago