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Synopsis English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer, conversationalist, regarded as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century life and letters. Johnson’s literary reputation is part dependent on James Boswell’s (1740-1795) biography The life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. (1791).-Johnson became Doctor Johnson when Dublin University gave him the honorary degree in 1765. He has a huge, strong athletic build, his appetite was legendary and it is said that he often drank over 25 cups of tea at one sitting. Next only to William Shakespears, Samuel Johnson is perhaps the most quoted of English writers. The latter part of the eighteenth century is often (in English-speaking countries, of course) called, simply, the Age of Johnson. Johnson was born in lichfield, Staffordshire, England, in 1709. He suffered physical diabilities in life but replied them with fierce talent and voluminous body of literary work, he produced, as also the first ever A Dictionary of the English Language.