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Dr Johnson And Mr Savage
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
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Release Date : 1999-01-01
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Dr Johnson Mr Savage
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1994
Dr Johnson Mr Savage written by Richard Holmes and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Authors, English categories.
"Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage recounts a story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship between Richard Savage - poet, playwright, and convicted murderer - and the young Samuel Johnson, an unknown provincial schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek his literary fortune. In a book that the Times Literary Supplement has called "a chiaroscuro masterpiece, as gothic as a ghost story, as heroic as a myth," Richard Holmes brilliantly reconstructs the puzzling emotional intimacy between the naive Johnson and the seductive, contradictory Savage whose days (when he was not in prison) were spent in taverns, brothels, and society salons." "Holmes's spellbinding account shows how their relationship shaped Dr. Johnson's experience of the world and his profound knowledge of human passion, and how it led directly to his early masterpiece, The Life of Richard Savage, a book that revolutionized the art of biography and invented the figure of the poet as a romantic outcast." "In Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage, Richard Holmes, says Alfred Kazin, "has shown us the young Johnson that Boswell was afraid to portray," and transformed our understanding of biography itself."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Johnson On Savage The Life Of Mr Richard Savage By Samuel Johnson
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-01-28
Johnson On Savage The Life Of Mr Richard Savage By Samuel Johnson written by Richard Holmes and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Lives that Never Grow Old Part of a radical series –edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnson’s book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.
The Life Of Mr Richard Savage Son Of The Earl Rivers
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
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Release Date : 1777
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Johnson On Savage
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Release Date : 2005
Johnson On Savage written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by HarperPerennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Lives that Never Grow Old Part of a radical new series -edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnson's book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive. When he first came to London, young Samuel Johnson was befriended by the flamboyant poet, playwright and blackmailer, Richard Savage. Walking the backstreets at night, he learned Savage's extraordinary story - supposedly persecuted by a 'cruel mother', sentenced to death for a murder in a brothel, appointed Volunteer Poet Laureate to the Queen, and finally broken and outcast. With this moving and intimate account, Johnson created a brilliant black comedy of 18th-century Grub Street which revolutionised English biography by its psychological realism. Yet Savage's destructive charm and delusions of grandeur sometimes even threatened to entangle Johnson himself.
The Age Of Wonder How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2009-10-15
The Age Of Wonder How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science written by Richard Holmes and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with History categories.
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.
The Life Of Mr Richard Savage Son Of Earl Rivers
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
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Release Date : 1769
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Lives Of The English Poets
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Release Date : 2023-03-15
Lives Of The English Poets written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by Alpha Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-15 with categories.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
The Life Of Mr Richard Savage Son Of The Earl Rivers
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
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Release Date : 1767
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Samuel Johnson
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Author : Peter Martin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-08-16
Samuel Johnson written by Peter Martin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
