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Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage: A Biographical Mystery (Paperback)

by Richard Holmes (Author)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (1 Nov 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0006548245
ISBN-13: 978-0006548249
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 833,627 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. Richard Savage was a poet, playwright and convicted murderer who roamed through the brothels and society salons of Augustan England creating a legend of poetic injustice. Strangest of all his achievements was the friendship he inspired in Samuel Johnson, then a young, unknown schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek his literary fortune. This puzzling intimacy helped to form Johnson's experience of the world and human passions, and led to his masterpiece The Life of Richard Savage, which revolutionized the art of biography and virtually invented the idea of the poet as a romantic, outcast figure. Richard Holmes gradually reconstructs this alliance, throwing suprising new light on the character of Dr Johnson. This extraordinary book also questions the very nature of life-writing and exposes the conflicts between friendship, truth and advocacy which the modern form has inherited.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Elementary my dear Holmes, 13 Jan 1999

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This superbly arranged piece of literature delves into the fascinating relationship between the little-known illegitimate rake/poet/playwrite/convicted murderer Richard Savage and a young, impressionable and awkwardly self-conscious scholar who came to be known as 'that Great Cham of literature', Samuel Johnson. Many are the Biographers and Students that have puzzled over the great man's association with the chancer whose dissipated life and whose claim to aristocratic parentage were the talk of the London literati throughout the eighteenth century. Holmes is the first to tackle the reasons behind this mysterious friendship head-on and he does it with the cunning and ingenuity of his ficticious namesake.

A must-read for anybody interested in 18th century intrigue or the Augustan Age of English literature.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good in places, 1 Nov 2005

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A rather short book but very interesting nontheless.

A bit too literary in places.

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