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PublisherBroadview Press

ISBN-101554811554

ISBN-139781554811557

eBay Product ID (ePID)24057274927

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NameLife of Mr Richard Savage

LanguageEnglish

SubjectMurder / General, Literary, Historical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2016

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorSamuel Johnson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2016-296800

Reviews"Samuel Johnson's Life of Mr Richard Savage is one of the greatest narratives in any genre of the British eighteenth century. Johnson's biography of his friend, a minor poet and hack writer who represented himself as the illegitimate son of a nobleman and died in a Bristol jail, is at once sympathetic and satiric. Broadview's edition, freshly edited and annotated by Nicholas Seager and Lance Wilcox, should be welcomed by students and general readers alike. Their introduction is lively, informed, and concise. The narrative itself is supplemented by relevant writings of Johnson and Savage, excerpts establishing Savage's reputation, and a range of other useful aids." - Robert Folkenflik, University of California, Irvine "This deeply informed edition of The Life of Mr Richard Savage is essential reading for students both of Samuel Johnson and of biography. The literary criticism, editorial practice, reception history, and wide-ranging reclamation of contexts are exemplary. The edition also allows us to read Savage's poetry, which Johnson included in his footnotes but which Seager and Wilcox prudently place at the back of their book. They have joined Samuel Johnson to produce an admirable Savage that should find readers from the classroom to the boardroom." - Howard Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal821/.5

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements 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 London(1738) The Ramblerno. 60 (13 October 1750) From The Ramblerno. 145 (6 August 1751) The Idlerno. 84 (24 November 1759) "The Life of Collins" (1781) Appendix C: Richard Savage, Satirist The Bastard(1728) "Fulvia" (c. 1728) From An Author to Be Let(1729) From The Progress of a Divine(1735) Appendix D: Savage's Contemporary Reputation From Eliza Haywood, Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia(1724) From The Life of Mr. Richard Savage[The "Newgate Biography"] (1727) From Nature in Perfection(1728) From William Saunders, "On Richard Savage, Esq" (1742) Appendix E: Savage's Posthumous Reputation Denis Diderot, Review of L'Histoire de Savage(1771) Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Prologue to Sir Thomas Overbury(1777) "On Richard Savage, the Poet" (1790) Appendix F: Johnson's Biographers From Sir John Hawkins, Life of Samuel Johnson(1787) From James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson(1791) Glossary Select Bibliography

SynopsisThe Life of Mr Richard Savagewas 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.

LC Classification NumberPR3671.S2