London, United Kingdom
211 Strand, Temple
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Wheelchair-accessible entrance
This is a statue of the Dr Samuel Johnson, who worked on the famous \A Dictionary of the English Language\. As for the statue, it's okay. It looks kind of comical. I'd expected something better for a man of such significance. I wouldn't go out of the way to see it, but fine if you're in the area.
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. In his time Johnson was a very important person of the London literary and intellectual environment. He was the author of the Dictionary of the English Language (1755):It took him nine long years to assemble the dictionary. He died in 1784 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
This statue is very misleading; it shows Samuel Johnson as a pugnacious little man, when in real life he had a very tall imposing physique. Behind his huge intellect he was disadvantaged by a form of tourettes syndrome, near blindness in one eye and slightly disfiguring childhood scrofula. Interesting to imagine with his directness and honesty how he would have critiqued our age of 'selfies'..
Apparently he wrote some books
Statua molto bella!
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