{"product_id":"dr-johnson-mr-savage-9780679757702","title":"Dr. Johnson \u0026 Mr. Savage","description":"In 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. . . . \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16324547\"\u003eRichard Holmes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.40h x 8.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679757702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679757708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-TRV\"\u003eTravel\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-TRV001000\"\u003eSpecial Interest | Adventure\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO006000\"\u003eHistorical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44686854750445,"sku":"9780679757702","price":18.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_f6393641-6071-4524-814f-7ce010eddf25.jpg?v=1703650226","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/dr-johnson-mr-savage-9780679757702","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}