1. According to Addison and Steele’s essay in the “Spectator,” No. 62, what is “wit”? How does it relate to literary creativity?

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In his preface to The Dictionary, Johnson speaks at length about language change, then describes his purpose for the dictionary:

It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated: tongues, like government, have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language.

Compare Johnson’s philosophy of language change–and his idea of the purpose of a dictionary–to that of the modern Oxford Dictionary. You can get a sense of the Oxford Dictionary’s mission and philosophy of language change on the Oxford Dictionaries FAQ page. How does this philosophy of language and dictionary purpose compare to Johnson’s?

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