DR JOHNSON
November 2011
The biographer of Dr Johnson's gift to posterity was to establish the latter as one of English literature's towering figures
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September 2009
Dr Johnson, the greatest writer of critical prose in the English language, was able to impart to his readers both human nature in general, and the character of Englishness in particular
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