The Other Samuel Johnson’s English Grammar
Issue number
(2022): 18
Notes category
An anonymous grammar was published a few years after Robert Lowth’s A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762)—The First Easy Rudiments of Grammar, Applied to the English Tongue (1765), attributed to Samuel Johnson. But copies are elusive. Who was this Samuel Johnson, and what was his connection to our °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ scholar and fellow Robert Lowth?
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