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Johnson And Boswell's Research Paper

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Perhaps one of more interesting reads of the summer, an important fact to note is the overall dates in which both Samuel Johnson’s Rambler essay and James Boswell’s biography were published. In Samuel Johnson’s set of periodicals, titled Rambler, his 60th publication was published in 1750, while James Boswell’s biography on Johnson, was published in 1791, which means Boswell was able to use the ideas and concepts of writing a biography given by Samuel Johnson himself. In the 60th edition of Rambler, Samuel Johnson states that no form of writing is more worthy of protecting and honoring, than the biography. Though one may wonder, exactly how Johnson would have felt in regards to his very own biographical piece, written by Boswell. Samuel Johnson

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