id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6823 View source for English literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 1729 182 65 View source for English literature Wikipedia You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia due to a block affecting your IP address. To prevent abuse, web hosts and colocation providers may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You will not be able to edit Wikipedia using a web host or colocation provider because it hides your IP address, much like a proxy or VPN. Even when blocked, you will usually still be able to edit your user talk page and email other editors and administrators. Johnson has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".{{citation|last=Rogers|first=Pat|contribution=Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784)|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|edition=online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14918|access-date=25 August 2008}} After nine years of work, Johnson's ''[[A Dictionary of the English Language]]'' was published in 1755, and it had a far-reaching effect on [[Modern English]] and has been described as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship."{{Harvnb|Bate|1977|p=240}} Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature" ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6823.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6823.txt