Dr Johnson & Mr Savage - Softcover

This is a biographical investigation into the life and times of Richard Savage, an early-18th-century poet of charismatic personality, but doubtful morals, who died violently and prematurely. Savage was a close friend of the young Samuel Johnson, who wrote "The Life of Savage", one of the greatest short lives in English literature and arguably the first modern biography. The book investigates the relationship between the men partly through original research, but also through the mediation of Johnson`s "Life of Savage". Thus, the book in some sense is a meditation on biographical knowledge and on the biographer's art.