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The Idler

Samuel Johnson
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London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1761. Good-. IMPORTANT NOTE: This book, by Samuel Johnson, is Volume 2 only of a 2 Volume Set Volume 1 is missing Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author, poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer He was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history"(Courtesy Wikipedia) The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the Universal Chronicle between 1758 and 1760 It is likely that the Chronicle was published for the sole purpose of including The Idler, since it had produced only one issue before the series began, and ceased publication when it finished The authors besides Johnson were Thomas Warton, Bennet Langton, and Joshua Reynolds Johnson's biographer, James Boswell, recalled that Johnson wrote some of the essays in The Idler "as hastily as an… Read More
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