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Dr Johnson and Mr Savage

Richard Holmes

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#872 of 3,809 books · #345 in Biography & Memoir

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (1993).

Holmes explores the enigmatic friendship between Samuel Johnson and the poet Richard Savage, whom Johnson memorialized in Lives of the Poets. Synthesizing a wide array of contradictory historical sources, from Johnson's Life of Savage to Boswell's Life of Johnson, the correspondence of Johnson's contemporaries and modern scholarship, Holmes shows that Savage was a notorious and alluring figure when Johnson first arrived in London in 1737.

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Publisher
Flamingo
ISBN-13
9780679435853
Topics
Samuel JohnsonLiterary friendship18th-century London literary life

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