{"product_id":"dr-johnson-mr-savage-paperback","title":"Dr. Johnson \u0026 Mr. Savage - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eLives of the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. Synthesizing a wide array of contradictory historical sources, from Johnson's \u003ci\u003eLife of Savage\u003c\/i\u003e to Boswell's \u003ci\u003eLife of Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Artificial Bastard\u003c\/i\u003e (1953). Holmes' book . . . is at once learned and a pleasure to read.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes's other books include \u003ci\u003eThis Long Pursuit, Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), \u003ci\u003eColeridge: Early Visions\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), \u003ci\u003eColeridge: Darker Reflections \u003c\/i\u003e(a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and \u003ci\u003eDr. Johnson \u0026amp; Mr. Savage\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the James Tait Black Prize). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 5.4 x 8.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52444798681395,"sku":"9780679757702","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NFgvNFMxRWtOajdlZ05jT3BTS2R5UT09.webp?v=1758949067","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/dr-johnson-mr-savage-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}