| Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage Contributor(s): Holmes, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679757708 ISBN-13: 9780679757702 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Travel | Special Interest - Adventure - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 8.4" W x 5.4" (0.75 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this outstanding, eminently readable work of literary scholarship, 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. . . . "Holmes enlivens his study with keen insights into the art of biography and evocative glimpses into the professional literary industry of 18th-century London: its oppositional politics, literary journals and Grub Street coffee houses bustling with impoverished writers."--Publishers Weekly "In the course of explaining how and why Johnson told his story as he did, Holmes provides a fairly full biography of Savage, the first book-length study since Clarence Tracy's The Artificial Bastard (1953). Holmes' book . . . is at once learned and a pleasure to read."--Library Journal |