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in England. His sympathy with ordinary life, and for poverty, 
combined with his generous sentiment made him acceptable to 
many who could not tolerate the hard brill iance of A. Pope. Also 
his treatment o f nature was original, even i f ponderous, and it was 
a theme growing in popularity. Thomas Gray (1716-1771), the 
author of the “Elegy”, was among the most learned men in Europe 
in his day, yet his poems are a thin sheaf, a few odes and the 
“Elegy”. He brought into his poems new interests, but with the 
whole o f the classical and medieval world within his grasp it is 
said that some melancholy or inertia held him from composition.
Samuel 
Johnson 
(1709 - 1784)
The second half o f the eighteenth century is often called the 
Age of Johnson. It was named so after Samuel Johnson, whose 
powerful personality and long literary career, made him the 
dominating literary figure of the century, from about 1750 until his 
death in 1784. He was a critic, poet, playwright, lexicographer, 
essayist, and biographer. Johnson may not have been the greatest 
writer o f his time, but his conservative values and his deep 
sensibility reflected the age and a profound impact on it.
Samuel Johnson was bom in the northern cathedral town of 
Litchfield, where his father ran a small bookstore. The family

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was poor, and his father’s lack of money forced Johnson to leave 
Oxford University without taking a degree. After he left Oxford, 
he earned his living with a number o f teaching and journalism 
jobs, none o f which were a financial success and none o f which 
could satisfy his literary ambitions. However, by the 1740s he