Samuel Johnson
1. Lexicographer: the author of the first English dictionary by an English man---A Dictionary of the English Language(1755)
2. To the Right Honorable the Earl of----Chesterfield
3. He was particularly fond of moralizing, and didacticism. His language in characteristically general, often Latinate and frequently polysyllabic.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1 Masterpiece: The school for scandle.
2 Sheridan has the only important English dramatist of the 18th century; important link between Shakespeare and Benard Shaw.
3 In his play, morality is the constant theme.
He is much concerned with the current moral issue and harshly at the social life of the day.
A. 代表作品
As a lexicographer, Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman –A Dictionary of the English Language.
B. 新古典主义文学观
a. The literary theme:
He was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes.
b. The principle of literary creation:
In literary creation and criticism, he was rather conservative. He insisted that a writer must please to universal truth and experience, i.e. Nature.