Greenwich 2000 GMT Feedback Search Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784 Greenwich resident Samuel Johnson Books:
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for there is in London all that life can afford." Samuel Johnson was born on 18 September 1709 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, and died on 13 December 1784 in London. He was the son of Michael Johnson, a bookseller in Lichfield. In 1728 he went to Pembroke College, Oxford, but a lack of money forced him to leave thirteen months later. In 1737 he went to London with his pupil, David Garrick, hoping to complete and sell his tragedy, Irene and make a living as a writer. He had no luck with it; it finally appeared, thanks to Garrick's help, only in 1749 so he took miscellaneous writing jobs. He wrote biographies (including the Life of Savage ), political satires ( Marmor Norfolciense ), and reports on the debates in Parliament. His first hit came in 1738; a poem called London , an imitation of a satire by the Latin poet Juvenal. His other most famous poem is The Vanity of Human Wishes , from 1749. | |
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