Dr. Johnson, was an English writer whose offerings to English literature as a composer, novelist, philosopher, fictional critic, historian, editor and lexicographer. He wrote no critical treatise but he prejudiced his age no more than any other English critics of the past. His life-threatening work is made up of a dozen papers in The Rambler, the clarifications on poetry in Rasselas, The Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare and The Lives of the Poets. Dr. Johnson’s the definition of a critic in his dictionary runs as “a man skilled in the art of judging literature”.

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Keywords: Critic, Biographer, Neo-Classicist, Classical Unities, Poetry in Rasselas.