Does 4chan read Dr Samuel Johnson? Was he the greatest literary

>>9226167

I just finished reading a bunch of his essays for a personal project. I watched a short BBC biopic on him.

The man would be a rip-roaring good time a party.

He was a huge man, who probably had Tourettes, had pretty much gone blind. Probably dropped out of university because of financial issues, probably brought on by drinking. Lived with a lot of street-type paupers. Later in life, had a place with a young slave boy, an elderly blind poetess, a 'doctor' who learned medicine by hanging out at the pub frequented by medical students, and a few other friends and wacky types.

His writing is perfect, his wit sharp, and intelligence awe-inspiring.

A man for the times.

>>9226167
Since I was 14, beginning with Rasselas-- a great one for a kid to begin with. Since then I've read and annotated an old teeny 2vol Oxford Lives of the Poets, the accounts of he and Boswell's journey through the Hebrides, most every essay, everything, in short, except the play, Irene, which, maybe, I'll pick up some day. So, yes.. I've also read all Boswell, not just the life. The one expensive book I own is a large 2vol copy of the dictionary, first authorized American edition from the eleventh London. He's the soul of brevity, point, and wit when it comes to the discernment of other authors, particularly poets, in English up to his time. Only Auden perhaps approaches him in facility of expression (I love the Dyers Hand) in English English, but is a far distant second.

>>9226167

I guess that answer to your general question, is no, /lit/ does not really read Dr. Johnson.

>>9226167
Isn't he the guy who wrote a novelty comedic dictionary?