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AI IMAGE - Portrait of Samuel Johnson, 1760s, (2023). Dr Johnson (1709-1784) was a British writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. His "A Dictionary of the English Language", published in 1755, was acclaimed as 'one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship'. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him 'arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history'.