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The Life of Mr Richard Savage

English

By (author): Samuel Johnson

The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (16971743) 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 debtors 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 Savages prose and verse, contemporary and posthumous responses to Savage and to Johnsons biography, and selections by Johnsons first two major biographers, Sir John Hawkins and James Boswell.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 304g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jun 2016
  • Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781554811557

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