Question

28. Johnson's Circle (Literary Club) includes: Joshua Reynolds, Goldsmith, and....
(A) Boswell & Gibbon
(B) Edmund Burk
(C) Garrick
(D) All​

Answer 1

Answer: A (Boswell & Gibbon)

Explanation:

Johnson’s Circle (Literary Club) includes: Joshua Reynolds, , Goldsmith,, and....

Answer 2

Answer:

(A) Boswell & Gibbon

Explanation:

• Joshua Reynolds established Club [Literary Club, Johnson's Literary Club] (act. 1764-1784) in February 1764, in part to provide 'The main joy of [Samuel Johnson's] life... conversation and mental interchange (Hawkins, 219).
• They were Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, John Hawkins, Topham Beauclerk, Anthony Chamier, Bennet Langton, and Christopher Nugent, together with Reynolds and Samuel Johnson.
• Samuel Dyer joined them shortly after as the first elected member.
• Hawkins and Dyer had belonged to the Ivy Lane Club, a Johnson-centered dinner club active between the winter of 1748–1749 and the middle of the 1750s.

The nine original members were:

• Joshua Reynolds: artist
• Samuel Johnson: essayist, lexicographer
• Edmund Burke: writer, later M.P.
• Christopher Nugent
• Topham Beauclerk
• Bennet Langton
• Oliver Goldsmith: author, playwright, poet
• Anthony Chamier
• John Hawkins: author

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