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Johnson’s Attitude toward Nature and Women : a New Way of Reading London

Critics idolized James Boswell’s Life of Johnson have too frequently overlooked the empathy Samuel Johnson’s work reveals toward women and other creatures of nature. Focusing on London, his first major poem, this article reveals the Johnson’s dissatisfaction with the corruption of city life and his desire to return to the pastoral, maternal countryside. This study of Johnson and his combining of women and nature offers insights into his support for the cause of female education, the ecologically sound use of the environment, and the humane treatment of all living creatures, thus emphasizing his desire for harmony and unity, not division.