Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature


began to produce works o f considerable importance


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English literature

began to produce works o f considerable importance.
Johnson’s literary achievements are remarkable. His “Dictio­
nary of the English Language” (1755) is noted for its scholarly 
definitions o f words and the use o f excellent quotations to illus­
trate the definitions. No one has equaled him in describing clearly 
to the English people what the words in their language really mean. 
In his “The Lives of the English Poets” (1779-1781) Johnson 
critically examined the work of 52 poets from Cowley to Gray 
and did much to establish literaiy criticism as a form of literature. 
Johnson also wrote articles, reviews, essays, and two satires, 
“London” (173 8) and “The Vanity o f Human Wi shes” (1749) show 
what his powerful mind, his grave moral outlook and his incisive 
phrasing could achieve. His prose work “Rasselas” (1759), though 
nominally an Abyssinian narrative, employs the story only for the 
philosophical argument, which is a trenchant attack on people who 
seek an easy path to happiness, actually an attack upon eigh­
teenth-century optimism.
Johnson’s friends (The Johnson circle) were the most important 
writers of the late 1700s. They included Oliver Goldsmith; Edmund 
Burke, who stood high in the councils o f the nation. Burke’s main 
work is to be found in a series o f political pamphlets, mainly 
delivered in the form of speeches. Burke in his prose a ways has 
the spoken word in mind, and, though he argues closely, he has 
the audience in view. This contact with the audience gave him the 
eloquence and the passion which entered into some o f his best- 
known passages (“On American Taxation”, 1774, “On Conciliation 
with the Colonies”, 1775), Burke’s oratoiy became a part of English 

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