This man started The Rambler and The Idler to promote his critical views, in addition to writing "The Vanity of Human Wishes" and Rasselas.
One poem by this author asks why Hyde was exiled and why Villiers fell to the assassin's blade after extensively portraying Cardinal Wolsey. That poem by this author, which begins "Let Observation, with extensive view, survey mankind, from China to Peru" was written in imitation of Juvenal's 10th satire. After his mother died, he wrote a short novel in which the poet Imlac, Pekuah, and Nekiyah help a prince of (*) Abyssinia escape the Happy Valley to see the world. This man started The Rambler and The Idler to promote his critical views, in addition to writing "The Vanity of Human Wishes" and Rasselas. For 10 points, name this English author of A Dictionary of the English Language, the subject of a fawning biography by James Boswell.
One poem by this author asks why Hyde was exiled and why Villiers fell to the assassin's blade after extensively portraying Cardinal Wolsey.
Samuel Johnson