In 1759, he was supposedly so desperate to pay for his mother's funeral that in two weeks he wrote a novel about a prince of Abysinnia, Rasselas.
After his friend Henry Thrale died, this man was outraged when Thrale's widow Hester married an Italian music teacher named Piozzi. In that same year, 1781, a collection of 52 lives of British poets written by this man was published. Earlier, this man had written a life of his friend Richard Savage, as well as two long poems inspired by works of Juvenal, "London" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes." In 1759, he was supposedly so desperate to pay for his mother's funeral that in two weeks he wrote a novel about a prince of Abysinnia, Rasselas. FTP, name this man who compiled a famous Dictionary of the English Language, a lexicographer and author whose life was written about by his friend James Boswell.
After his friend Henry Thrale died, this man was outraged when Thrale's widow Hester married an Italian music teacher named Piozzi.
Samuel Johnson