{"product_id":"dr-johnson-mr-savage-isbn-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. . . .  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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\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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300673933541,"sku":"NP9780679757702","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679757702.jpg?v=1767725592","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dr-johnson-mr-savage-isbn-9780679757702","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}