The Life of Mr Richard Savage

ISBN-13: 9781554811557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Samuel Johnson; Nicholas Seager; Lance Wilcox

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The only student edition of Samuel Johnson's great eighteenth-century literary biography.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on Money
Richard Savage and Samuel Johnson: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers

Johnson’s extended footnotes to the Life

Appendix A: Errors of Fact in Johnson’s Life of Savage

Appendix B: Related Writings by Johnson

1. London (1738)
2. The Rambler no. 60 (13 October 1750)
3. From The Rambler no. 145 (6 August 1751)
4. The Idler no. 84 (24 November 1759)
5. “The Life of Collins” (1781)

Appendix C: Richard Savage, Satirist

1. The Bastard (1728)
2. “Fulvia” (c. 1728)
3. From An Author to Be Let (1729)
4. From The Progress of a Divine (1735)

Appendix D: Savage’s Contemporary Reputation

1. From Eliza Haywood, Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1724)
2. From The Life of Mr. Richard Savage [The “Newgate Biography”] (1727)
3. From Nature in Perfection (1728)
4. From William Saunders, “On Richard Savage, Esq” (1742)

Appendix E: Savage’s Posthumous Reputation

1. Denis Diderot, Review of L’Histoire de Savage (1771)
2. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Prologue to Sir Thomas Overbury (1777)
3. “On Richard Savage, the Poet” (1790)

Appendix F: Johnson’s Biographers

1. From Sir John Hawkins, Life of Samuel Johnson (1787)
2. From James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

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