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en-wikipedia-org-5297		View source for English literature - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2693	256	65	Johnson has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".<ref>{{citation|last=Rogers|first=Pat|contribution=Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784)|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|edition=online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14918|access-date=25 August 2008}}</ref> After nine years of work, Johnson's ''[[A Dictionary of the English Language]]'' was published in 1755, and it had a far-reaching effect on [[Modern English]] and has been described as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship."<ref name="Bate240">{{Harvnb|Bate|1977|p=240}}</ref> Sentimentalism, which is to be distinguished from sensibility, was a fashion in both poetry and prose fiction which began in the 18th century in reaction to the rationalism of the [[Augustan literature|Augustan Age]].<ref>Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener, eds., ''The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period'' (2008).</ref> Among the most famous sentimental novels in English are [[Samuel Richardson]]'s ''[[Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded]]'' (1740), [[Oliver Goldsmith]]'s ''[[Vicar of Wakefield]]'' (1766), [[Laurence Sterne]]'s ''[[Tristram Shandy]]'' (1759–67), and [[Henry Mackenzie]]'s ''[[The Man of Feeling]]'' (1771).<ref>J.A. Cuddon, ''A Dictionary of Literary Terms'' (1999), p.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5297.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5297.txt