TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Samuel AU - Wilcox,Lance E. AU - Seager,Nicholas TI - The life of Mr Richard Savage T2 - Broadview editions SN - 9781554811557 AV - PR3671.S2 Z74 2016 U1 - 821/.5 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Peterborough, Ontario, Canada PB - Broadview Press KW - Savage, Richard, KW - Johnson, Samuel, KW - Authors, English KW - 18th century KW - Biography KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Murderers KW - Great Britain KW - fast KW - Early works N1 - Originally published in 1744 under title: An account of the life of Mr. Richard Savage; Includes bibliographical references N2 - "The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by an unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson, who would later become the most celebrated British writer of the late 1700s. 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, John Hawkins and James Boswell. A discussion of factual errors in Johnson's account help the reader place the Life and the supplementary texts in their historical and intellectual contexts."-- UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016296800-b.html UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016296800-d.html UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016296800-t.html ER -