Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt''s oft-cited comparison between Johnson''s prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson''s prose style as ''a species of rhyming'' in which ''the close of the period follows as mechanically as the oscillation of a pendulum, the sense is balanc...