The Life of Mr Richard SavageBroadview Press, 2 de juny 2016 - 272 pàgines The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697—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 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 Savage’s prose and verse, contemporary and posthumous responses to Savage and to Johnson’s biography, and selections by Johnson’s first two major biographers, Sir John Hawkins and James Boswell. |
Continguts
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Introduction | 9 |
A Note on Money | 39 |
A Brief Chronology | 41 |
A Note on the Texts | 45 |
An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage Son of the Earl Rivers | 47 |
Johnsons extended footnotes to the Life | 144 |
Errors of Fact in Johnsons Life of Savage | 171 |
Related Writings by Johnson | 177 |
Richard Savage Satirist | 201 |
Savages Contemporary Reputation | 215 |
Savages Posthumous Reputation | 239 |
Johnsons Biographers | 245 |
Glossary | 259 |
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