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In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of ...
Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763.
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel ...
In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted ...
Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition.
Elegantly written, candid, and original, Talking at the Gates is a comprehensive account of the life and work of a writer who believed that "the unexamined life is not worth living.""--BOOK JACKET.
This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life.
Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales James Boswell ... in Author . a Hypochondriack , i . 493 , n . 4 ; Doug- las Cause , ii . 57 , n . 2 ; entails his es- tate in ...
James Boswell. Athenæum . acceptance as Secretary of the Royal Academy , iii ... author , iii . 481 ; useful , in subjects of taste , v . 313 ; felt by ... in Author . a Hypochondriack , i . 493 , n . 4 ; Doug- las Cause , ii . 57 ...
... Boswell completed , revised , and finally published what he had earlier ... James Boswell : The Later Years , 64-80 ; Brian Finney , " Boswell's ... in Author - ity and Textuality , ed . Leonard et al . 8. On Johnson's work with ...