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"The Vanity of Individual Hopes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated" is the most famous poem by the scholar and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Many eminent critics, including Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot, consider it to be Johnson's crowning success as a poet. The subject and argument of the poem are obvious from the name. However, unlike Juvenal, Johnson espoused the view that Christian values are an essential aspect of a life well lived. While Johnson goes by harsh judgement on the foolishness of greed and cultural pretensions, his scorn is much tempered by that natural compassion that has made him one of the very most lovable characters in English books.
