| Description |
xxviii, 608 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [565]-572). |
| Contents |
pt.1: Staffordshire Youth: Anecdotes of beggary -- Stepping on the duckling -- Leaping over the rail -- Two benefactors -- pt.2: Despondency and hope: Oxford: weilding a scholar's weapon -- Horrible imaginings -- Stirrings in Birmingham -- Taking a wife -- pt.3: Slow rises worth: -- Stranger in London -- Sons of misery: finding Richard Savage -- 'Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd' -- Wandering in the Midlands -- pt.4: Triumph: the dictionary years: -- London revived: a lion in harness -- A lifeline: the dictionary -- Poetic interludes -- Tetty and 'Amorous Propensities' -- The Triumph of the moralist -- Darkness falls -- Once more unto the breach: back to the dictionary -- pt.5: Depression, Shakespeare, travel and anger: Stalled -- 'Suffering Chimeras' -- 'Vain and corrupt imaginations' -- Boswell and Mrs Thrale -- Shakespeare and the living world - Coliseum of beasts -- Back to Shakespeare and the dictionary -- The road to the Hebrides -- Politics and travel -- pt.6: Biography and 'The race with death': -- 'A very poor creeper upon the earth' -- biographical Straitjacket -- Losing ground -- The last days. |
| Subject |
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
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Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780674031609 alkaline paper |
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0674031601 alkaline paper |
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