Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) was an English writer – a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. His works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage, an influential annotated edition of Shakespeare's plays, and the widely read tale Rasselas, the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, and most notably, A Dictionary of the English Language, the definitive British dictionary of its time.
El libro que le dio la fama a Samuel Johnson fue La historia de Rasselas, príncipe de Abisinia (1759), considerado por muchos como una obra maestra de la literatura universal. La historia transcurre en el Valle Feliz, un hermoso y exuberante pero monótono valle, lugar de reclusión...
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