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His reputation traditionally emphasizes prose, despite a substantial life-long output of poems from youth to days before his death, spanning Latin and Greek as well as English. 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His literary fame has traditionally—and properly—rested more on his prose than on his poetry. As a result, aside from his two verse satires ( 1738, 1749), which were from the beginning recognized as distinguished achievements, and a few lesser pieces, the rest of his poems have not in general been well known. Yet his biographer James Boswell noted correctly that Johnson’s “mind was so full of imagery, that he might have been perpetually a poet.” Moreover, Johnson wrote poetry throughout his life, from the time he was a schoolboy until eight days before his death, composing in Latin and Greek as well as English. His works include a verse drama, some longer serious poems, several prologues, many translations, and much light occasional poetry, impromptu compositions or jeux d’esprit. Johnson is a poet of limited range, but within that range he is a poet of substantial talent and ability.  \nJohnson, the son of Sarah and Michael Johnson, grew up in Lichfield. His father was a provincial bookseller prominent enough to have served as sheriff of the town in 1709, the year of Samuel’s birth, but whose circumstances were increasingly straitened as his son grew up. Samuel was a frail baby, plagued by disease. He contracted scrofula (a tubercular infection of the lymph glands) from his wet nurse, which left him almost blind in one eye and nearsighted in the other, deaf in one ear, and scarred on his face and neck from the disease itself and from an operation for it. He also was infected with smallpox. These early and traumatic illnesses presaged the continuing physical discomfort and ill health that would mark his entire life.  \nThe Johnson household was not a particularly happy one, for financial difficulties only exacerbated his parents’ incompatibilities. The serious psychological problems Johnson experienced throughout his life were undoubtedly connected in part with the troubled domestic situation of his childhood. Johnson’s major advantage from the beginning was his mind, for the intellectual powers that were to astonish his associates throughout his life appeared early. He excelled at the Lichfield Grammar School, which he attended until he was 15.  \nAccording to his boyhood friend Edmund Hector, Johnson’s first poem,“On a Daffodill, the first Flower the Author had seen that Year,” was composed between his 15th and 16th years (in 1724). Written in heroic quatrains, the poem is largely an accumulation of traditional lyric conventions typical of poets from Robert Herrick to Matthew Prior. At moments, however, its weighted seriousness, and particularly the melancholy sense of process and the moral that ends it, suggests some of the points where the poetic strengths of the mature Johnson would focus. The poem poses no serious challenge to William Wordsworth but is not an entirely inauspicious beginning. Hector later told Boswell that Johnson “never much lik’d” the poem because he did not feel “it was ... characteristic of the Flower.” Significantly, even so young, Johnson recognized the need for the concreteness and specificity that in his later poems would infuse the more abstract intellectual conceptions that dominated his first effort.  \nJohnson spent the next year at Stourbridge. Initially he made a protracted visit to his older cousin Cornelius Ford, enjoying the company of this genial, witty, and worldly relative and access to a social world significantly wider than life at Lichfield had offered. Later Johnson worked at the Stourbridge Grammar School with the headmaster, John Wentworth. About a dozen of Johnson’s poems from this period survive, mainly translations. Most of them were school exercises, such as his translations of Virgil’s first and fifth eclogues a","cbCaikEH9S9lQC38","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikEH9S9lQC38","pdf",1322076,34,"English","# Biography and literary range\n## Poetic reputation and lifelong writing\n## Childhood illnesses and domestic influences\n## Schooling and early poems\n## Early translations and experiments","[{\"question\":\"Why is Samuel Johnson’s fame traditionally tied more to his prose than his poetry?\",\"answer\":\"His literary reputation has traditionally rested more on his prose than on his poetry, even though his poetry included notable verse satires and many other pieces throughout his life.\"},{\"question\":\"What major illnesses affected Samuel Johnson’s early life?\",\"answer\":\"He suffered from scrofula, resulting in near-blindness and other impairments, and he was also infected with smallpox, foreshadowing ongoing ill health.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Johnson’s early writing develop during his school years?\",\"answer\":\"The text describes his first poem composed between ages 15 and 16, then his later school exercises and translations, showing both adherence to traditional forms and an emerging seriousness and experimentation.\"}]","Samuel Johnson - Poetry Foundation | PDF",1789946117,52]