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Title: |
The Life of Mr Richard Savage |
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| By (author): |
Samuel Johnson Edited by: Nicholas Seager, Lance Wilcox |
| ISBN10-13: |
1554811554 : 9781554811557 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Weight: |
.310 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - June 2016 |
| List Price: |
26.75 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697â 1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also irresponsible and impulsive. His role in a tavern brawl almost led him to the gallows, though his life was saved by an eleventh-hour pardon by the King. Over time he attracted many supporters, practically all of whom he managed to alienate by the time of his death in a debtorsâ prison in Bristol. Johnson, who had been friends with Savage for a little over a year, drew on published documents and his own memories of Savage to produce one of the first great English biographies. The edition is supplemented by other writings by Johnson, a selection of Savageâ s prose and verse, contemporary and posthumous responses to Savage and to Johnsonâ s biography, and selections by Johnsonâ s first two major biographers, Sir John Hawkins and James Boswell. |
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